Believe me, I'm a php newbie myself, and talking to mysql from php is a piece of cake. Especially if you are using a library like ezSQL. Check it out at http://php.justinvincent.com/ or http://codewalkers.com/seecode/179.html
I was afraid a little bit coming from other languages but using ezSQL took all my fears away in a couple of seconds. Really ease to use and great examples. Check it out!
Wade Preston Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i'd love to do it with MySQL... but i don't know anything about MySQL
yet... and haven't had a chance to learn yet.
we have a server running MySQL, but i simply don't know how to use it.
my current project is learning PHP. perhaps my next will be MySQL.
how hard is it to set up a web app to talk to/read the MySQL server (if
it's already installed)?
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Michael Ryan Byrd wrote:
>> the company that i work for has need for the equivelant of "an excel
>> file online... that can be edited by multiple users."
> If you expect simultaneous edits, you'll need to consider some sort of
> concurrent versioning system (CVS) type of provisions, or check out or
> locking
> or merging to ensure users don't write over others' work etc.
>
>> i told them what they really need is a small database with a webapp
>> front end that allows them to add to/edit it.
> What they need is a relational database, like mysql or postgres.
>
>> i have a few PHP scripts (that art helped me right... thank you art)
>> that make up a small flat-database... allowing you to add new entries
>> and delete entries. i tried to add a "edit entry" feature by my self,
>> but have yet to be able to get it to work.
> Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems as if you are going to
> a lot of
> effort to replicate (poorly) the functionality of a *real* database.
> Why?
> Reading and writing to flat files is not very fast or efficient you
> know.
> Relational databases, on the other hand, do that sort of data
> manipulation for
> you, and they do it fast and cleanly.
>
>> what i have would almost work for what my company wants, but... they
>> want to be able to sort the information by columns.
> Ok, if you must have your flat files, you could always read the
> information into
> an array and use PHP's array sorting functions to do this. ( See
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array.php ) But again, I can
> only hope you
> have some compelling reason for avoiding real databases, like SQL
> allergies or
> something.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Ryan
>
>
> ____________________
> BYU Unix Users Group
> http://uug.byu.edu/
> ___________________________________________________________________
> List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
>
____________________
BYU Unix Users Group
http://uug.byu.edu/
___________________________________________________________________
List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
----------------
Adrian Madrid
=========
