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squirellplaying
03-25-2004, 12:58 AM
I got my first real assignment we shall call it in making a web page. I only know html and javascript. Nothing complicated yet, but enought to learn something I need to learn fast. The problem I'm going to have is that a database would be nice to have on the site to link to the people. I don't know how to do it at all. I know how to use MS Access. But that's all in my world of databases. I don't know how to link them to the site or anything. I'm trying to run this off a linux machine so I won't be using Access most likely. The database will have the name (first and last) parents names, address, phone number, what group they are in, what rank they are, how long they have been there, and possably a list of trips they have attended. Anouther database or file will be used to show upcoming trips and who is signed up to go on them.

Questions:
What language should I learn for the database / what database will be good for this?
What language should I use to show the database info on the site?

~~Sorry if I put this in the wrong place. I wasn't sure where to put it since I had two different questions.

pb&j
03-25-2004, 06:35 AM
i think a commonly used is...
MySQL for the database.
PHP for processing and displaying the data.

ronaldb66
03-25-2004, 08:38 AM
and displaying the data
I would recommend HTML for that. Which PHP is capable of churning out.

pb&j
03-25-2004, 02:44 PM
yeah, that's what i meant...
thanks.

squirellplaying
03-25-2004, 07:52 PM
I thought that I needed a server side language to display the stuff from the database. I'm not sure how to do it using only html.

gsnedders
03-25-2004, 08:19 PM
That's what you use PHP for...

squirellplaying
03-25-2004, 10:10 PM
Alright, that's what I thought. Thanks.