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Old July 21st, 2002, 11:25 PM
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im goin to have an admin area where they can change background colorz etc... in doing this, everything will be in a database (MYSql)

Is it better to have the data in seperate fields or have 2 fields... 1 field for as the "name" and then the 2nd field for the "data"? If I have only 2 fields, then would I have to filter it out - what would be the best way to do this?? Should I use seperate tables?
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if its in ASP, the most common way of doing these configuration is using server includes

so set a variable in a file called

config.inc

like

BackColor="#CCCCCC"
BorderColor="White"

and in your page, put

<body bgcolor="<%=BackColor%>">

make sure at the top of each page you add

<!--#Include file = "config.inc"-->
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Old July 22nd, 2002, 08:22 AM
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ahh i get what your saying, its like my site, ive got the prefrences not in a file, but in my database, so its easy to create a prefrence page thingy in da admin

the database structure is like this

id | name | value

then its easy! w00p. soz need 2 sleep
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If your doing that, then what i would do is load them up as your application variables that way ur round trip to the database is minimized
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Ben, If I have the database structure as you say - this would mean that I'd have to filter the database?? So that when I want the bgcolor prefrence.. i would need to filter "bgcolor" in the "name" field?

Do you have an asp sample code so that I can see what you mean?
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What you can do is loop through the query results and put the options in associative arrays
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What if I rang the whole table through a look and set them as session Variables? Would it use up too much memory? eg.

<%
strConn = "Driver={Mysql}; Server=203.2.7.2; Database=dbtest; UID=ffff; PWD=ffff"
Set objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConn.Open strConn
strSQL="select * from tblSettings"
set rs=objConn.Execute(strSQL)
rs.movefirst

while not rs.eof
Session(rs("Name")) = rs("setas")
rs.movenext
wend

rs.close
objconn.close
set rs = nothing
set objconn = nothing
%>
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