write to a xml sheet?

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Joined: Jan 2009

Hi,
Starting a new project and I'm thinking about something nifty, lol.
Rather than using a MySQL dbase, is it possible to write to a xml sheet thats on the server, and then let AJAX do its thing with the data?

pr0gr4mm3r's picture

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Joined: Sep 2006

A MySQL database is more efficient, but you can learn to save/read XML data with PHP here.

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Joined: Sep 2003

AJAX can do its thing with a database too. I don't know about you, but writing queries is a lot easier than trying to parse XML. I don't think XML files can be joined like database tables, so XML is more limiting than SQL.

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