Re: New PHP

I would recommend spending a couple of hours hacking in this Tutorial: http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/MilesToGo/ It deals with something we all know how it's supposed to work (an appointment calendar) and it is both simple and a little tricky (for a total newbie) at the same time... That's how my first PHP experience started, and i'm doing fine :-)´ Have in mind that this newsgroup isn't your only choice of help. There are tons of tutorials out there. If that isn't enough, you'll also have a ton of scripts (in sourcecode) that you can manipulate, learn and use. Welcome to the wonderful world of PHP! -- Michel Laine Burrito wrote: > I'm thinking of making the conversion from Cold Fusion. I am NOT a > programmer and so Cold Fusion has been very easy for me to use. However due > to cost and a few other factors, I"m thinking PHP might be a good switch. > Some the deciding factors will be its ease of use and how good these forums > are. The Cold Fusion forums have proven to be a fantastic resource for > problems and so I would need these forums to be as good or better for me to > justify changing languages...this leads me to my first php question. I have > a database set up using MySQL on my windows 2000 server using an ODBC driver > for my connection. My datasource name is "test," my database name is > "testdatabase" and I have a table named "testtable". My username is > "usernametest" and my password is "passwordtest" How would I run a simple > query to insert a row in my testtable table that has two fields, one called > testfield1 the other called testfield2. Then, how would I run another query > to select that row and print it on my html page? I have scanned over the > manual (VERY BRIEFLY) and didn't see anything related to the database > integration. > > My apologies for this totally mundane question, but as I said above, this > messages serves a two-fold purpose and the first is to see how good these > forums are :) > > any help you can provide is greatly appreciated, > > thx in advance for your time, > > Burrito