Adding a database to a website
I'm new to working with databases and I haven't quite gotten comfortable with internet programming, so here I am in need of some advice.
I have a friend has asked me to help in adding a database to his website. The page is written in HTML and uses forms. My question is, how should I go about adding the database? and what kinds of databases would you recommend? All advice and opinions are greatly appreciated.
anti posted this at 14:42 — 25th January 2001.
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Two questions:
1. Will the DB be used to generate the pages each time they are accessed or only once in a while ?
(e.g. I generate the news on my homepage once per night, but the e-commerce site generates the pages on the fly.)
2. What OS is running on your host.
Best thing is to check out PHP (incl. FastTemplates) and mySQL which is a pretty reliable and commonly used solution.
If you run into more specific problems let us know.
anti
dhaliwam posted this at 13:27 — 26th January 2001.
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Depending on your ISP, you also have choice to use Cold Fusion.
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