Douglass, thanks for the tips!
As far as Mambo or Xoops - I wanted to create something a little different -
but I WAS thinking of using Smarty before-hand... I just wasn't sure how I
could really use it? I'm familiar with Smarty as far as I've played around
with it a little... but I guess I wasn't sure how I could use it in this
situation... are you saying that I should have Smarty hold the design - and
use MySQL to populate the "Virtual Sites" with the Content stored in the DB?
It sounds like a great Idea and would probably be much more Resource
friendly! This is why I asked for more info and gave more info - hoping NOT
to get someone to code anything - but to give me Ideas on what would work
the best. :)
Thanks alot for the info Douglass! I'm going to search the web for more
Tutorials on Smarty - hopefully I find something related to this! It'd
probably make my life much easier if what I think you're saying is what
you're actually saying lol
On 9/12/05, douglass_davis@stripped <douglass_davis@stripped>
wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks for any answers! I hope I'm using this list correctly - I did search
> Google and I've been reading an MySQL Manual for over a week now trying to
> get it down 110%!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Clint
>
>
> If you would like, you may check out these related technologies that do
> what you are talking about already:
>
> www.mamboserver.com <http://www.mamboserver.com>
> www.xoops.com <http://www.xoops.com>
>
> Also, if you use templates, it makes it easy to just keep the relevant
> parts of the page, and then display them inside of a predefined template.
> That way, you can change the template whenever you want, and all your pages
> will change. If you store the part of the HTML that formats the text (color,
> style etc) in the DB, this isn't possible.
>
> smarty.php.net <http://smarty.php.net>
>
> wasn't sure if you could use any of these, but, here's the info.
>
> --
> http://www.douglassdavis.com
>
>
