what is the best storage for handling a chat module?

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webgroundz
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what is the best storage for handling a chat module?

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hello guys,

what is the best storage for handling all the messages in a chat module?

is it using :
database, text file, or xml?..

thanks all..your comments is highly appreciated.. :) :) :)
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I'd say db unless you have very good reasons to use something else.
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Post by superdezign »

What is your medium?

Many would need a mixture of the database and XML by converting the database data into XML data and passing it from PHP to your application.
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