I'm creating an interactive story-creating site. The stories sometimes get quite large, say 10 pages of text, 20-30 k.
Q1. I get the feeling that it's a bad idea to have database fields that big in DBMan. Am I right?
Q2. If large records is a bad idea: Has anyone tried connecting seperate textfiles to records i DBMan? Users should be able to enter text i a textfield defined in an html.pl file. Then that text should be stored in a file. Finally, that file should be displayed among the other info in the record (that's the easy part, and I've also seen other entries in the BB that show how to do it). In other words, a little akin to using memo-files. Any ideas?
Torbjörn Hedberg
Sweden
Q1. I get the feeling that it's a bad idea to have database fields that big in DBMan. Am I right?
Q2. If large records is a bad idea: Has anyone tried connecting seperate textfiles to records i DBMan? Users should be able to enter text i a textfield defined in an html.pl file. Then that text should be stored in a file. Finally, that file should be displayed among the other info in the record (that's the easy part, and I've also seen other entries in the BB that show how to do it). In other words, a little akin to using memo-files. Any ideas?
Torbjörn Hedberg
Sweden