MySQL vs PHP flat file for this specific situation
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Hi. Noob here. I suggest always storing the data in a format that's appropriate (in this case, as a db table) and then "compiling" it into a form that's most efficient for execution. That is often in the storage format, but it may also mean as compilable code. I like to store strings in a table, and emit them to PHP files.