Working on a fetch_news script

[Zach]

Originally Posted by mOdEtWo

Hey Zach, thanks for your offer. But I want to have the news script fetch posts from the DB, not from files. I want my admins to be able to post mews directly from vB in a news forum.


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Um, mine does - it does everything out of the database, except show it to the end user. If its edited, its edited out of the database, if its anything, its done out of the database - except if its read - then its read from a flat file.

Think of it this way.

If 10,000 people hit an article or news item on your site - and its pulling from your database, whats gonna happen?

Now if 10,000 people hit an html page, that is dynamically bringing in that article or news item not from the database, but just a text file - what is gonna happen?



1) Nothing, and I mean nothing - server gonna die.

2) Server should have no problem handing out ten thousand copies of a flat html file.