Brian, You can go either way (PHP, Perl, or JSP) for querying the database. My personal preference is PHP. What is a lot more important, however, is to do some serious database analysis and design. From a guy who's working with a database wtih only one field for address where there need to be five fields (name, address, city, state and zip), this is probably the most important part of the job.
-----Original Message----- From: Colaluca, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie Question Hello there. I recently got a wild hair to set up an amateur web site that will allow a group of friends to log and comment on bottles of wine. Having never done web development before, I set out to first research what relational database I would use that would satisfy my need for maintaining three related tables: an objective category of wines (1999 XYZZY Vineyard Cab), a subjective category of wines ("It sucked"), and a user listing. I found that MySQL fits perfectly (my budget, that is), plus I wanted something to run off of my Linux box. Where to go from here is where I'm stuck now. I am tossed between going towards a scripting language like PHP or PERL, and embedding that directly in my HTML, or possibly going the Java route. Does XML have the capability of directly querying the database? I'm curious to hear what methodologies have worked best for users of MySQL, keeping in mind a tight budget. Is the J2EE architecture worth looking more heavily into, or is that somewhat overkill for what I'm trying to achieve? One thing is certain, I would like to use either Mandrake or Red Hat for my OS, and of course prefer to use Apache as my web server. Other than that, I am open to suggestions or comments. bjc- :::::====== Brian J. Colaluca - Software Engineer :::::====== DRS Technologies - ESG =========== [EMAIL PROTECTED] =========== phone: (301) 921-8107 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
