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Re: Is there anyone who could build this?

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On 10/2/2014 12:49 PM, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:35:13 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> 
>> The easiest way would probably be to store a flat file with a name
>> related to the user's name.  Not very secure unless you can store it
>> outside of the website's document root.  If you can't, I would suggest
>> something like encrypting the filename based on the user's name.
> 
> Technically, whether you have one file per user or one file for all 
> users, you still have a database, just not in a conventional format. I 
> suspect that this may be one of the points the tutor intends to make from 
> the exercise.
> 

That's true, in the strictest sense.  However, you need to store the
data *somewhere*.  My thought was the professor was thinking of the
common meaning, that being SQL databases - although he could have been
more clear on that.

They probably haven't covered SQL yet, which would make the project that
much harder.

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Is there anyone who could build this? andrewpaulford@gmail.com - 2014-10-02 08:16 -0700
  Re: Is there anyone who could build this? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2014-10-02 18:32 +0200
  Re: Is there anyone who could build this? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-10-02 12:35 -0400
    Re: Is there anyone who could build this? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-10-02 16:49 +0000
      Re: Is there anyone who could build this? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-10-02 13:34 -0400
      Re: Is there anyone who could build this? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-10-02 19:49 +0200
        Re: Is there anyone who could build this? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-10-02 15:56 -0400
  Re: Is there anyone who could build this? Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2014-10-02 17:53 +0000
    Re: Is there anyone who could build this? Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2014-10-02 18:00 +0000
      Re: Is there anyone who could build this? Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2014-10-02 15:37 -0400
  Re: Is there anyone who could build this? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-06 22:13 +0100

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