Re: PHP Tutorial Including MySQL?

Coffee's For Closers wrote:

I suspect that my project needs MySQL and PHP, but I am a
beginner at both. I am looking for some basic tutorials to start
with...

You will have quite a lot to catch up before you should start to work
with your project. You will need to understand how to normalize a
database and general database design, if you manage that, then you will
have far better possibilities that many others has. Of course the better
you are at PHP, the better the end result will be, but that part is far
easier to improve than a database you have already been using for a year.

Each page returned will be a list of results. Each result will
be a text link (to an outside site) plus a few paragraphs
describing the stuff at that link.
OR, people can type in some search terms to a search box, and get
the listings.

Things like this depends heavily on the database design, have you a bad
one from the start, you will get troubles when you search and present
results.

You could take a look at these articles:
http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/09/10-useful-articles-about-database.html

I would also be interested in ideas about organising this with
static pages, in a directory structure. Including directory-
building scripts - preferably free. This could be set up for a
short time while learning the more technical search/DB details.

Personally I would most likely store those in a database, and using a
interface to edit the text if needed, this gives you the possibility to
search those pages too.



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//Aho