Currently I generate navigation for my site from an Access database; in brief I run a 'sweep my folders for new pages' program, stitch them into the hierarchy, and then run a 'publish index' program. This generates the Joust menu that I use.

It's fine, although as the site grows the menu will get slower. And although most users get the hang of it, some don't and a prettier look, with mouse droppings might be good.

Has anyone any experience with using PHP for this? I would pump my index into MySQL, and the PHP would dynamically refresh the menu for each page loaded. Or will that kill the site dead?!!!

Or (Option 3), I could set up something to blast my (newly non-framed) pages with new menus before publishing...

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