Re: [PHP3] general - choosing/accessing database

In article <394952BD.3EEAB4DE@line.at>, geo@line.at (geoka) wrote: > hi! > > okay, i'm biulding up a webproject which needs some kindof > automatisation, for example: a member logs in into the members area, > then he/she chooses the category where he/she wanna put an article to > the web, and then he/she get's a predefinded html-formular where he/she > can spezify title/subtitle/subcategory/conten an something like these... > > i wanna do this all with php3 (or 4, does that matter ?) but i only have > the documantation from the internet to lern php3, and there are 9/10 > function documentation...so i don't really how to access a database... > AND > which type of database i should choose for my projekt... > i heard somthing about mySQL and so...how about this ?? *ANY* of the databases should be able to handle this. You only *really* need to worry about "which database" if you need specific features like transactions or you expect a million hits a day (or whatever the limits of any given database are) on your site. You may want to stick with whatever database package you have handy or you already know anything about. If you have no previous preference, MySQL is a good choice since there's so much sample code out there. PHP3 or PHP4 will work just fine and dandy as well. There's a nice tutorial to get you started linked from one of the main pages off of http://www.php.net/ as well as several MySQL tutorials in various places. -- Richard Lynch | If this was worth $$$ to you, buy a CD US Customer Support Director | from one of the artists listed here: Zend Technologies USA | http://www.L-I-E.com/artists.htm http://www.zend.com | (this has nothing to do with Zend, duh!)