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advice on a basic flat file cms

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:07 am
by mj_gooner
Hi,

i have had a look around but am looking for some advice. i would like to create a flat file cms for a small website. the features would be;

- an image gallery
- a couple of pages with text that needs to be edited (either via forms or by changing a .txt file)
- a guestbook
- a page that has links created automatically after a word file has been uploaded.
- some authentication.

i know MySQL would be useful for this but can anyone recommend a cms that doesn't use a db.

many thanks

mark

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:59 am
by timvw
What's wrong with sqlite? (In the end you'll be writing exactly the same code for storage in a flat file)

sqlite

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:33 am
by AnarKy
timvw wrote:What's wrong with sqlite? (In the end you'll be writing exactly the same code for storage in a flat file)
I totally agree, using a file(s) for this is murder!!!
This should be done using a DB and if you don’t want a separate DB server...
:arrow: use sqlite

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:29 am
by Ambush Commander
Some people don't have MySQL. Others thing SQL query is too complicated (I was like that: all my stuff was flat file). It's an understandable dilemma. But you know what? Learn SQL.

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:59 am
by timvw
SQLite is not MySQL... Just read the documentation what is ;) And how it can be useful as it doesn't need to have a SQL dbms running...