Hi,

I want to store html tags that will be used to replace tags in a message retrieved from a database e.g. &lt;b&gt; with <b>. I have about over 100 of these tags and I'm wondering where is the best place to store them.

I'm for storing them in a script (e.g. in a python list or dictionary or a Perl array) for the following reasons:

1) Saves a call to the database

2) Easier to edit because the script is a textfile

3) Easier to add too for the same reason as (2)

What are your thoughts on the above?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Many thanks in advance

It's not a matter of pros and cons. It's a matter of design.

If you need to be sure that every app sees the same data, it needs to go in the database.

If, on the other hand, this information is peculiar to the webserver side of your system, it shouldn't go in the database. This seems to be part of the presentation stage of your system, that is, it's not part of your business logic.

Thanks, so08y