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Forum database questions or methods?

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chameleon

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I am in the processes of creating a forum for some friends and I to communicate on a project and was wondering what database would work best for this. I've tried a Access based database which works, but there are problems with reading in memo fields. Does anyone know if there is a beter method other than using memo fields for stroing textarea data, or if a different database would have beter results. I've thinking of installing MySQL but not sure it would have the same issues when reading in taxtarea data.

Thanks for any input.
 
There are a bunch of free forums software packages out there. I think one of them is called XMB forums. It's quicker to set up and will have more features than doing it yourself.
 
It's not a forum script he's looking for.. he's asking which database will allow him to store textarea's text.

As for what database to use, MySQL should have no problem at all. I use text field to store a large block of text with no problem.
 
Thanks guys I'll try MySQL. Also have you guys tried to read in large blocks of text and display it in a webpage? That's really the issue I have. In access I can write to the database fine, but when I try to read in the large text block it will error out when a line has been word wrapped. Do Blob fields in MySQL have this issue verses memo fields in Access?

Thanks

 
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