I have the task of redoing our Intranet. I did most of the spec work for it and have done about %60 of the code and %100 of all new apps on it and all the DB work.
The problem is there is a little too much interaction required by me to update the thing. One thing that has me stumped is section menus. I.E. You click on the HR section of the Intranet and they have a menu on the side unique to them, while this is very static in nature I do not want to have to edit the menu file (gets included as an SSI) I was think just pull this from a DB, but that one heck of a lot of hits to my SQL server. I was thinking XML, but since I lack any great knowledge of the technology I wanted to see if this is a case where you would use it.
My thought would be as the menu for each department gets updated it creates an XML file that would be parsed when the page loads.
Is this a practical thing to do with XML, would the DB be faster, or should I just create the HTML and continue with SSi's which I think i would rather get away from.
Your thoughts and opinions are welcome andappreciated.
SpazMan
The problem is there is a little too much interaction required by me to update the thing. One thing that has me stumped is section menus. I.E. You click on the HR section of the Intranet and they have a menu on the side unique to them, while this is very static in nature I do not want to have to edit the menu file (gets included as an SSI) I was think just pull this from a DB, but that one heck of a lot of hits to my SQL server. I was thinking XML, but since I lack any great knowledge of the technology I wanted to see if this is a case where you would use it.
My thought would be as the menu for each department gets updated it creates an XML file that would be parsed when the page loads.
Is this a practical thing to do with XML, would the DB be faster, or should I just create the HTML and continue with SSi's which I think i would rather get away from.
Your thoughts and opinions are welcome andappreciated.
SpazMan