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chrisrhymes
7y

Just read a forum thread where someone uses an excel spreadsheet as their database for a PHP website. What makes it worse is they have done this for the past 12 years.

Is this real or someone taking the piss?

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  • 1
    7y
    This is possible and some people overly enjoy watching the world burn.
  • 1
    7y
    Are your sure they were not trolling? Even from the basic php tutorials your learn about mysql.
  • 1
    7y
    You know sounds legit. After some shit I've seen, it's hard to get surprised...
  • 0
    7y
    @ignuit just as I thought. Legit. *Le sigh*
  • 1
    7y
    @ignuit what kind of sorcery is this madness?!
  • 1
    7y
    Well, if it works for Amazon... lol
  • 0
    7y
    I had a contract gig once where I had to implement something like this, although in my case the excel file was just an input file that I parsed and then inserted into the database.

    I’m crazy but I’m not THAT crazy.
  • 0
    7y
    @gblues
    I can handle bulk imports from csv, but using the spreadsheet as a DB is a whole other level of criminal.

    I’m just glad I’ve never had to walk down that path.
  • 0
    7y
    If the site is not big, using a csv is not uncommon. :(

    I wonder if someone has used ini files for this :p
  • 0
    7y
    We were forced to use a Textfile as database in a PHP course at school... because are teacher didn't want to setup a database-server for testing it took us 4 weeks to get him to allow SQLite
  • 0
    7y
    Reminds me of the guy that automated everything at his workplace and just chilled for 6 years playing LoL https://reddit.com/r/...
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