[H-GEN] PHP & MYSQL On Linux

[Harry Phillips]

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David Duffy wrote:
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> Hi there,
> I've managed to install MySQL and PHP on my RH 7.3 box
> (whoo hoo) and want to start builing a new web site.
> Can someone with experience with this sort of thing tell
> me if it's easy enough to store product details (photo,
> price, text) in a MySQL database on the Linux server and
> have Apache & PHP serve it up as web pages based on what
> categories the surfer clicks on? I realise that it's a
> bit OT here but need a nudge in the right direction. :-)
> David...

I have recently began learning MySQL + PHP.

To do it I purchased the 'Learn MySQL in 24 hours' book from SAM 
Publishing. It has some PHP examples in it for the rest of the stuff I 
found PHP tutorial sites on the web.

I also downloaded and examined the PHP code of others that did a similar 
function to what I wanted. I did alot of copy, pasting and experimenting 
from there.

I looked at the code of my first PHP page the other day. It took me a 
week to write the original page and just over an hour to make it about 
50 times better.

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips
--- Failure is not an option,
     it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.


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