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[hindym]

I am designing a gallery website and I need to create a small database of pictures which can be accessed according to the viewers' preferences. I am new at this and have no idea where to begin. How do I go about creating this database? Are there scripts available that I can download (cheap!)?

[ronaldb66]

If you really want a database to store your pictures, you can hardly do without server side scripting. See what scripting languages your host supports; if PHP is among those, and they've installed MySQL as well, you've got a nice combo of scripting and database management.
There are a number of sites that offer useful assistance and a ton of free PHP scripts, including ones for setting up and maintaining MySQL databases.

[hindym]

Thanks for your help. My host supports PHP but does not have MySQL.
Any other suggestions?

Thank you!
H.

[Spookster]

You don't really need a database for running a photo gallery script. There are some that don't use databases.

I have been using this one which is pretty good

http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php

All you need is PHP and no database.

[hindym]

The user needs to be able to search and retrieve according to various requisites -doesn't this require a database?

[Spookster]

Originally posted by hindym
The user needs to be able to search and retrieve according to various requisites -doesn't this require a database?

That one has a search feature and no it doesn't require a database.