Re: HTML in MySQL?

[Jasper Bryant-Greene]

clint lenard wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm fairly new to MySQL and I've searched for about a week looking 
> for an answer to this...
> 
> I'm trying to design a Database that would hold HTML sites in the DB itself 
> and use PHP to call for the HTML file - which would be populated with 
> Content from another table in MySQL. I was told I could put HTML into 
> MySQL... so my main question would be: "is this possible?", "is this a BAD 
> thing?" but most of all... would this be resource intensive?

Of course -- HTML is just a string like any other. Just use a TEXT field 
of the appropriate size for the size of your HTML pages, and then store 
the HTML as a string in that field. Then retrieve it and output the 
string with PHP.

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