Peter J. Boettcher — Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:54:00 +0000

kmcluk,

Odds are if your host uses PHP the database they'll be using will by mySQL. They should have some sort of online form that will allow you to setup the database.

I think your first step should be finding out for certain which format of database your host uses, just send an email and ask them, it's an easy question

Regards,
Peter J. Boettcher

Maverick — Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:29:00 +0000

You'll probably need to contact your host to find exactly which database they have installed and to have it created for you. Odds are that they'll need to set it up on their end. After it's set up, you communicate with it through Telnet or via Perl/PHP3, etc.

Try: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/tutorials/tutorial4.html

or
http://faq.web2010.com/tutorial/

for some basic PHP/MySql tutorials. If your host is using a database other than MySQL, just look for tutorials on that one instead.