[WEB4LIB] learning db programming- tips

[Stephen Meyer]

If starting with a knowledge of HTML (and guessing at the database and 
scripting capabilities available to you), I would recommend the O'Reilly 
book Web database applications with PHP and MySQL by Hugh E. Williams 
and David Lane. It will provide an overview of both PHP and MySQL and 
how they are integrated with a server in a web environment. The book is 
based on an example/tutorial model. After that your ready reference 
sources might be things like http://php.net/ and 
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html. These were some of the 
main resources that got me up and running.

-steve

Karen Davis wrote:

> Andrew Darby wrote:
> 
>>Both are now running off one MySQL database, and we connect with PHP.  I 
>>know you said you didn't do db programming, but it is the best way to 
>>handle this sort of thing, and isn't as hard as it may seem at first 
>>blush . . . . 
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> Andrew (or anyone else who wants to chime in): 
> more and more I'm resigned to having to learn db programming, but I'm dumb as dirt about it! 
> Could you please give me some tips on how to get started? What software do I need? (I use DW MX 2004 to create web pages) 
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