# Is a db really necessary here?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-a-db-really-necessary-here/30797>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [September 14, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-a-db-really-necessary-here/30797 "2003-09-14T11:13:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nocturn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90ced4/32.png) [@Nocturn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nocturn)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-a-db-really-necessary-here/30797/1 "2003-09-14T11:13:45Z")

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Say I have a simple shopping page, with a pic of a product, link to it’s description page, and buy button. I also want to have a page where people could easily add a product for this page, along with a pic for it, and a description. This page would then take the submitted info and add the new product to the products page.

A db wouldn’t really be necessary here right? Or would it depend on how many products you have? For example I have 50 products, 10 per page. Would it be possible with php to just add a new product to “the end” of the current products, without having to make a db connection everytime someone requests a product listing? Or, if a db would be better to use, would it be possible to just generate the page once from the db, and then for subsequent requests just serve up the already made page?