Re: Storing point and polyline data to file

I am pretty much completely going with sql now. I was trying for a xml
db so I could stay away from the database at an established site in
case something went wrong.
You can write flat files, xml files, etc, with php, but ADDING to a xml
file in php is pretty damn difficult, I am finding.

If you were to handle individual files for each marker, okay, that is
messy, though. It is difficult to append xml and leave the root tags
proper.

I see that asp is really quite competent at handle xml for this kind of
stuff, so no problems there.

Seeing I'm just learning php as we go here, I am not very good at it,
but it already seems apparent that what evilc says is right. Problem,
my server doesn't have GeoSpatial extensions.
Problems with xml: xml support is also irregular and unreliable for
many places, and I can barely get anything going on windows, even with
php 5, etc.

I am still getting somewhere with the xml file idea, so I hope to one
day have a solution.

I didn't even look much at .txt and csv, though.