Kevin
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| Posted: 09/14/2002, 12:06 AM |
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hi,
is it possible to use tab-delimited text databases with codecharge?
i will download the trial but before i want to learn if it can the do following.
creating a form processor with the following features:
1. customizable and any number of input fields.
2. sending the form's contents to the email addres and put the message into a db table.
thanks
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eDuck
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| Posted: 09/14/2002, 4:08 AM |
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It certainly is possible from and ODBC point of view, but why on earth would you want to do that? Flat files does not have definitions like relational datbases, and it would get veeeeeeeeeery slooooooooooow, very quickly. Explain a little more what you would want to do with this form?
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Kevin
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| Posted: 09/14/2002, 9:14 AM |
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hi,
thanks for your response.
it's not true that text file-based or unix special db-based apps are slower. actually it's much more faster with small data inside. for example if you have 200 rows then probably text DBs is faster. but if your data is very large say above ~2000 (but if you're professional then this will go above 20.000-> look at ubb classic bulletin board) then it becomes slower and problematic because file-lacking.
any db access is like app->db layer->filesystem. but other is app->filesystem. i explained the why this is so.
more important thing is that mysql hosting is a bit expensive. if i could have chance doing without mysql then why i deal with mysql?
Educk can you say me it's possible with codecharge and can you briefly explain it? especially how the mail function are inserted in codecharge? is it hand-typed?
thanks
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eDuck
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| Posted: 09/14/2002, 10:12 AM |
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The only way you would be able to do that is either write call directly to interperet the structure of the file. Using C# and ASP.NET would be easy, or the other way to do it would be to define the file structure in your ODBC link, provided that you have access to this. If it's that small, what about a Access database. There are litterally scores of webhosts that would asks nothing for this. How much do you want to spend on hosting?
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