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my site gets a lot of international traffic and right now I have US and UK ads available

so I was wondering, PHP switch seems like the obvious choice, then I can load the ad manager that is suitable for the visitor's local needs etc

I was considering new ideas but I am not sure about the best approach for a globalized site

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Basically the code goes like

Using more PHP code gives you flexibility, or you use straight ad HTML or whatever for simplicity. Point is, you pick a filename, and if that thing doesn't exist then you use a default instead. Want to add stuff for a new country? Drop the files right in.

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Legendary is the Only Way to Play!
16 lbs grain to make only 1 lb meat, water for 6 months of showers and 34.1 lbs carbon dioxide
My sites are made with WordPress, which is a content management system which now accounts for more than 60% of all websites

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very little to no writes to the DBF file, 99.9% would be all read access

any writes would be a simple add to the table, however I see PHP does support PACK so at least I do not have to open FoxPro or other classic development tools

I was considering using a simple DBF to store recipes in, seems like an easy way to store them

Databases in the cloud are expensive, so I am looking to see what PHP can be leveraged to do

some databases I have are in Access format, so I have to figured out how to best leverage what I have

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Legendary is the Only Way to Play!
16 lbs grain to make only 1 lb meat, water for 6 months of showers and 34.1 lbs carbon dioxide
My sites are made with WordPress, which is a content management system which now accounts for more than 60% of all websites

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I am considering mostly what I can do directly with PHP and JavaScript so that the site can be moved around easily. So any resource needs to be in the document root or a subfolder.

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Legendary is the Only Way to Play!
16 lbs grain to make only 1 lb meat, water for 6 months of showers and 34.1 lbs carbon dioxide
My sites are made with WordPress, which is a content management system which now accounts for more than 60% of all websites

MySQL is fairly ubiquitous so shouldn't pose a problem. An SQLite database would be stored as a file right in your project's directory structure, so should also be very portable. Just something to consider.

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dBase tables are OK for my needs, a lot of the functionality needed is already intrinsic with PHP and I suspect it will remain useful as the old database is still a solid workhorse

Once I figure out some nutritional databases I have I was thinking of how best to leverage them which gets back to the recipes database, so clearly I need to consider a lot of options

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Legendary is the Only Way to Play!
16 lbs grain to make only 1 lb meat, water for 6 months of showers and 34.1 lbs carbon dioxide
My sites are made with WordPress, which is a content management system which now accounts for more than 60% of all websites