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    <p>I am currently in the process of designing myself a database driven website. The main reason is for learning purposes but I wont lie, there is a small amount of vanity included!</p> <p>While I believe that my database design is pretty good so far, I am still not entirely sure on the best way of storing articles or other large texts. I know most DBMSs have the TEXT datatype or equivalent and can hold a massive amount of text. However, storing a full article as one long string makes for unhappy reading, so formatting is going to be needed.</p> <p>Do I store the article text along with all of the HTML or BBcode tags - or is it better to simply create the page in either a HTML or XML document and store the path to this file in the DB? </p> <p>I quite like the idea of storing articles as an XML document as I can easily markup an article with custom tags and use PHP's XML and XSLT functions to transform the XML to HTML [or indeed, any other format]. It also allows the author to dictate when to create line/page breaks. This approach would of course require extra coding [which I am not afraid of] but it does present a problem with making articles searchable.</p> <p>I know MySQL, for example, has SQL syntax for searching for specific terms/phrases inside strings held in a text field. If I were to store text in separate files, how might I approach making these articles searchable?</p> <p>There is quite a lot I have written here on such a simple question, so I will break it down:</p> <p>1: Is there a "best" way of storing large amounts of formatted text directly in a database or<br> 2: is it better to hold paths to that text in the form of HTML/XML/Whatever documents.</p> <p>If 2, is there an elegant way of making that text searchable?</p> <p>Thank you for your time :)</p>
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