On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 11:54:02 +0200, Axel Berger wrote:

> Chris Green wrote:
>> It's a horrible way to create web pages IMHO
>
> In general yes. The exception is, when you really *are* dealing with a
> large database and use HTML to present its content. See
> http://www.steinheim-institut.de/cgi-bin/epidat?lang=en
>
> Also look at (picking one at random):
> http://familie.berger-odenthal.de/Berger/Album-Gorsdorf/Bilder/
B-02-2-1.html
>
> Arguably it would be far better to have one single PHP page inserting
> the different images as required instead of generating hundreds of
> nearly identical static pages through local scripts and uploading them
> all. Think of finding one typo.
> Case one: Edit one single page, done.
> Case two: Edit one template, regenerate hundreds of pages and uploade
> them all again.
>
>> except that everyone knows (or thinks they know)
>> how to interface PHP with mySql.
>
> I don't as yet (simply using someone else's Wordpress template is not
> knowing and being able to do it myself). But it would be worth learning.

That sounds like the sort of thing I'd do with Java and SQL. The JDBC
class interface is pretty slick and handles large fields well. Tricks
like using one field to hold an e-mail MINE part or the HTML text between
... tags.


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