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You may want to play around with Ziro's Item System in the Code Gallery, and get an idea how they typically work.

You're going find though that if you have to load text files for everything when they log on that it will be really slow, compared to one's using a Cache and/or SQL.

I imagine a lot of this is going to fly right over your head right now but it'll hopefully make more sense after some experience with one.