Lots of PHP

Hi all,

I'm in the early steps of the design of a portal kid of site dedicated to
Fly Fishing and one of the most relevant section will be a "Shopping Guru"
that visitors will be able to use to determine what is the best equipment
they should buy or bring, in order to catch the size and kind of trout
they want to get, wherever they want to go and whenever they decide to go.

This sounds simple, but I have to take in consideration that my Country
has LOTS of places to fish and every time of year it's different as trout
are never in the same place, so equipments to be used are different
depending the time of year (grouped in two weeks), etc.

A solution will be to start writing several miles of text into text files
or databases so PHP can fire these up and seek for a solution depending on
what the visitor has chosen, but this is an extremely log solution,
specially having in mind that this site will be in two languages.

What would be the best solution for this? I even want to let visitors
select the equipment (what they own), the place and the time of year and
get the kind of trout they will be fishing, or maybe even more ways
around... is this possible? has anyone made something so "intelligent" in
PHP before?

I use PHP 4+ and MySQL 3.4

Thanks in advance,

-----------------------
Cesar Aracena
lists@icaam.com.ar
http://www.icaam.com.ar
Cel: +54.299.635-6688
Tel/Fax: +54.299.477-4532
Cipolletti, Rio Negro
R8324BEG
Argentina




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Internet y Comunicaciones
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If you're going to be keeping track of all these demographics, you'll
want to store these in a database rather than a text file.

-----Original Message-----
From: César Aracena [mailto:lists@icaam.com.ar]
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 7:41 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [php] Lots of PHP

Hi all,

I'm in the early steps of the design of a portal kid of site dedicated
to
Fly Fishing and one of the most relevant section will be a "Shopping
Guru"
that visitors will be able to use to determine what is the best
equipment
they should buy or bring, in order to catch the size and kind of trout
they want to get, wherever they want to go and whenever they decide to
go.

This sounds simple, but I have to take in consideration that my Country
has LOTS of places to fish and every time of year it's different as
trout
are never in the same place, so equipments to be used are different
depending the time of year (grouped in two weeks), etc.

A solution will be to start writing several miles of text into text
files
or databases so PHP can fire these up and seek for a solution depending
on
what the visitor has chosen, but this is an extremely log solution,
specially having in mind that this site will be in two languages.

What would be the best solution for this? I even want to let visitors
select the equipment (what they own), the place and the time of year and
get the kind of trout they will be fishing, or maybe even more ways
around... is this possible? has anyone made something so "intelligent"
in
PHP before?

I use PHP 4+ and MySQL 3.4

Thanks in advance,

-----------------------
Cesar Aracena
lists@icaam.com.ar
http://www.icaam.com.ar
Cel: +54.299.635-6688
Tel/Fax: +54.299.477-4532
Cipolletti, Rio Negro
R8324BEG
Argentina




---------------------------
Soluciones profesionales en
Internet y Comunicaciones
http://www.icaam.com.ar



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