Re: Category Form Selection or Database Type

[Frank Miedreich <miedreich@acm.org>]

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>I'm sorry if these are too simple. I just cannot find the answers
>Got 2 questions, any hints on either are appreciated.
>
>1. Has anyone put a pop-up menu of all the categories available for an
>automatic form search? I can do this manually, but if the categories change
>it would be nice if the pop-up of all of them could change with the
>database.
>

The building of a category list has recently been discussed on this list.
Since you also ask about 10000+ products, I would strongly recommend
parsing the products database at regular intervals and building the
categories list as a file to be included. (shell script or perl)

I may have a solution available in the near future, but don't count on it.


>2. Also, if I have 10,000+ products, is the default ".GDBM" or ".DB"
>efficient enough for this? Or is SQL a better means?
>

Under most circumstances, i.e. when sql integration is not a necessity, I
would personally prefer gdbm or db. Both are at least good enough, even for
larger catalogs.


>Any input is welcome.
>Thanks,
>brett
>

input


Greetings, Frank

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Frank Miedreich
Max-Planck-Institut fuer psychologische Forschung


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