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Brian --
...and then Colaluca, Brian said...
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% Hello there.
Hi!
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% I recently got a wild hair to set up an amateur web site that will allow a
Heh :-)
...
% 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.
Yep. All good so far.
%
% 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
Either of those would do quite well.
% in my HTML, or possibly going the Java route. Does XML have the capability
Well, you wouldn't embed the perl in the HTML; you'd use a perl script to
do the queries and *generate* the HTML. You could use php and mix it in
with HTML and have it spit out what it finds, which is a nice touch; you
don't have to have things look like they're CGI programs (which is often
the appearance with perl) when you use PHP.
% 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?
Gaack. I'd run, not walk, away from it. Then, again, I don't speak Java :-)
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% One thing is certain, I would like to use either Mandrake or Red Hat for my
I'm a fan of SuSE for my boxes (desktop and server), with perhaps
something like Debian but more probably OpenBSD for my servers (nice
to keep those secure). Avoid the crimson fedora; in my personal and
professional experience their service and support stink.
% OS, and of course prefer to use Apache as my web server.
Of course!
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% Other than that, I am open to suggestions or comments.
HTH & HAND
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% bjc-
mysql query,
:-D
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