new to db web pages, but curious

[lostdreamer]

Hello: please bear with me, I am pretty new to this.

I have reading much on db-driven web sites, and I am very interested in implementing a db on the back end of a portion of a site in progress. I have also read that mysql and php just rock and are relatively easy to learn?

Does anyone have any advice for websites to learn more about this or books that are great references?

Thanks for any feedback.

[Ronski]

Bill, you might try

http://php.net for the complete php manual. If you've programmed in C or Perl, you should pick up php basics pretty quickly.

http://mysql.com for info on MySQL, the syntax of which is fairly straightforward.

and

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/ for a quick start on learning php.

I downloaded and installed the Apache server software so that I could learn php on my own machine. It's better than experimenting on site. There's a post somewhere on here that tells you how to set everything up.

[Ronski]

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