Believe me, you won't regret it!
Wade Preston Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
alright... perhaps it's time to start using MySQL. i'll give this ezSQL
a try.
thanks for the pointers.
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 01:59 PM, Adrian Madrid wrote:
> 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
> >
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