[Tutor] design advise

[Alan Gauld]

<davidwilson at Safe-mail.net> wrote

> In my application I need to choose how to store data for each user, for 
> example:
>
> /news
> /articles
> /games
>
> My difficulty now comes in how to store this data in that I will need to 
> create views

> Which is the more efficient option for storing this data, is it better to 
> have
> all in one place and for each users' view to search by user id and return 
> the
> filtered down list, or store it within each users' individual directory 
> and then
> create a new list by traversing each users' directory?

How about storing it in one place and creating shortcuts from the users 
areas
to the master? That way items can be shared by users but still appear to be 
private.

It might also be worth a look at how Apple do that stuff on MacOS... 
including
iTunes etc

Alan G