Hi all,
I'm just curious to how forums store the body of messages. Is it just as
text in a DB? This seems to me as if the DB would take on gigantic
proportions if a lot of people posted regularly. Or is there another trick
which is used? I was thinking perhaps saving messages as a text file, with
the Db storing a link to the message and fopen used to draw it out. Not sure
what the response time to such an action would be when applied to a lot of
messages. I know the messages would still take up the same amount of disk
space, but I'm guessing the DB would be a lot smaller and easier to
maintain...
As I say this is more of a curiosity then anything else :)
Chris
