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for little things a flat file is easy and works great.
MySQL is good if your getting lots of hits cos it'll do all the clever stuff for you so you don't corupt stuff. eg read you flat file at the same time as you're writing to it. - but this has overheads.
php has the advantage that it works well with mySQL very easily - but perl is hardly much harder.