[H-GEN] PHP & MYSQL On Linux

[David Duffy]

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> David Duffy wrote:
>
>> 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. :-)
>
> Harry Phillips wrote:
>
> 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 found a couple of good site last night.

> 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. 


Nothing wrong with that. That's how I started with basic HTML coding.

> 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.


I've done that with old assembler code and thought "how butt ugly was that!"
David...

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