I've been asked to make property management site that will allow the owners to upload text descriptions and photos of each property they manage, and let users browse through the sites under management.
I know HTML, CSS, javascript, and I've learned a little PHP, for example I can send email, read and write to a flat text file (using it as a simple database) on the server, do hashes, and store and check passwords using session variables. But I will definitely need to learn a few more things to complete this site. So I'm wondering what the simplest way to proceed is, and I was wondering what people thought of this approach. I don't know any MySQL and this approach doesn't require it:
1. Use a flat txt file properties.dat to store the name of each property under management.
2. Create a folder for each property where text and image file uploads will reside.
3. Text and images can only be uploaded to existing properties entered in properties.dat.
4. Users can see thumbnails of the uploaded files and a larger version when a thumbnail is clicked on.
Does this sound like a straight-forward approach? Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Mike
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