Re: PHP

From:	John Nichel	Date:	Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:16:46 +0000
Subject:	Re: PHP
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Lester Caine wrote:

John Nichel wrote:
Cheung Pui Pan wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to make a page on which people may add records to a table and view them (As my web server does not support MYSQL, I may have to do

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John - Since his ISP does not support MySQL why should he be looking for MySQL manuals?

Even if his ISP doesn't have MySQL installed, he can still install it in his _home_ directory.

He needed pointing to other ways of doing the job!

Well, I did supply a link to the PHP manual.

Far too many knee jurk reactions assume MySQL is the answer to everything. Thankfully ISP's are now supporting other mush more convenient options :)

Convenient? Like what, PostgreSQL? Oracle? MSSQL? Progress? Flat files? Maybe I'm biased, but for handling data like this, I don't find anything more convenient than MySQL.

Try looking for a non-MySQL solution using the links you gave :)

Following the link to the PHP manual.... http://us4.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php if the OP wants to use flat files And a ton of other DB options besides MySQL. -- John C. Nichel KegWorks.com 716.856.9675 john@kegworks.com