Writing a web based front end to a DB
I want to write a web based front end to a MySQL database. I would naturally use what I know - Perl and CGI, but that's a bit old hat these days. PHP4 might be a better idea (and it'd give me a chance to learn something new). However, I look at state of the art web applications like SourceForge et al, and can't help wondering how they're done. Server side scripting? Or some more recent technology which I should know about? -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003
Derek Fountain wrote:
I want to write a web based front end to a MySQL database. I would naturally use what I know - Perl and CGI, but that's a bit old hat these days. PHP4 might be a better idea (and it'd give me a chance to learn something new).
PHP very often. Have a look at (say) ilias at http://www.ilias.uni-koeln.de/ios/ or webcalendar on http://www.sf.net/ PHP and MySQL are very good at working together. -- JDL PS: Can someone remind me how I get into MySQL after first installation on a new SuSE box? I seem to recall that its harder than putting # mysql -u root -p and not putting a password. ... it's one of those things you only do once a year ;-)
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:06:09 +0000
John Lamb
Derek Fountain wrote:
I want to write a web based front end to a MySQL database. I would naturally use what I know - Perl and CGI, but that's a bit old hat these days. PHP4 might be a better idea (and it'd give me a chance to learn something new).
PHP very often. Have a look at (say) ilias at http://www.ilias.uni-koeln.de/ios/ or webcalendar on http://www.sf.net/
PHP and MySQL are very good at working together. Exactly. I just found an excellent book "Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL" by Kevin Yank. They just released second edition. The first 4 chapters are free for downloading. The URL is http://sitepoint.com. I was using O'Reilly's MySQL book and the PHP Bible, but this book actually got me started. For me, PHP itself was easy because it is so much like C.
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