[Josh] — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 07:50:11 +0000

I will loook at that =thanks.

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:45:55 +0000

I recommend you read Kevin Yank's tutorial on webmasterbase/sitepoint.

http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/228

It's pretty short and basic compared to most others. I think it's a good intro for newbies.

[Josh] — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:29:46 +0000

Ok. I will give those ago. I found the mySQL tutorial (all of it), how should I put it, a bit long winded. I'm going to have a crack at making a basic guestbook. Just user and email and message posted. Then shown on another page. I will also make a Install Page. I would apprieciate it, that if I finish it someone could test it, see if it works, and see I I made any mistakes in the code.

Thanks for all your help with this.

elara — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:17:29 +0000

Try visiting sites like devshed.com, sitepoint.com, phpbuilder.com, faqts.com

you can learn a great deal of MySQL stuff there.

[Josh] — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:06:00 +0000

Thanks that page looks really helpful. Now I've got a few tutorials and that, I should be able to make something.

Peter J. Boettcher — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:39:37 +0000

Check out this link at mysql.com:

http://www.mysql.com/articles/ddws/24.html

Just modify it to work with your tables.

[Josh] — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:58:53 +0000

Ok. I've followed a bit of advice. I've managed to create two php/mySQL scripts which create a table in my database then insert a few fields. If say my field was called "name". If I wanted to create a form which I could fill in which would then enter the data into the database how would I do it? Thankyou

Thanks

[Josh] — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:44:24 +0000

Hi, thanks for the help, I will read through the a simple script and the documentation. Then I will have a go at doing a basic script!

Mark Hensler — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 06:07:03 +0000

The mySQL documentation isn't the best, and I've had a few questions which I could not answer by scouring them, but they do serve as a good cheat sheet.

You might want to check http://www.HotScripts.com and download a guestbook or some other simple script that you can dig into.

mairving — Sun, 18 Aug 2002 20:53:27 +0000

The first thing to learn is some basic SQL. Learning stuff like SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, JOINS etc. are a good start. Then figure out how to handle relationships between tables. Beginning people to SQL tend to make their databases with only one or two tables. The key thing is to try to avoid redundancy in your database. I tend to see a lot of people that can write some pretty good code like PHP, Perl but their SQL is pretty poor.