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** 1. General theory **
par George le mercredi 17 septembre 2003
The whole content of a SPIP driven site is stored in a MySQL database. To
make this information available to the site visitors, it must be read from
the database, organised and inserted in a layout displaying an HTML page
in the web browser.
This operation is usually very awkward:
it requires a good knowledge of PHP and MySQL programming and the
creation of complex routines;
the integration of such routines in an advanced HTML layout is quite
laborious;
performance issues should be taken into account: systematically executing
PHP code and querying the database consumes much resources, slows the
visits and in extreme cases causes the Web server to hang.
SPIP offers a (...)