Database Help

[peakymatt]

Hi All

Was wondering if any of you guys can help with my problem. I am currently building a website that has a huge amount of products. I need to put them into a database so that people can view them, by different categories, price etc.

Now the problem is, I'm not a programmer as such. I need to find a database that I can just plugin and edit. It needs to have a client side and also and admin side so that the images can be modified, prices updated etc.

Is there anything around that people know about, or can suggest where I can look.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Matt
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[Znupi]

As far as I know, there isn't such a database. You won't find people that just design databases for others to download, lol :D. You'll have to make the database yourself, which shouldn't be too hard. (If you're using MySQL & PHP check http://phpmyadmin.net :))

[omanzi]

Me too I think no READY-2-USE Package available... unless you find a volunteer to help you....
if there are no complex report to produce I can just design some think very simple for you just to allow you input your data and retrieve them then show you how to customise.
Right ?

[The_Magus]

Good Morning:

Not really applicable to the question but I have come to suspect that data bases are not a good idea of you want a good search engine result. Have absolutely nothing to back up this thought - just a theory that is starting to form in my mind.

My site does very well against my competitors when viewers search for specific items even though I have very few items compared to them. My items have a page for each while those of my competitors are buried in data bases.

I don't do very well when the search string are more general because it seems that a site with 15,000 of the items searched for will always do better then one with 1,000 but for specific terms, I win because I think the search engines register my pages better then they register data bases.

I wouldn't use data bases unless absolutely necessary.

Cheers

Jack
The Magus

[Znupi]

It depends on how you use your database. If you use it wisely, search engines will index your pages just the same as it would index pages without a database (you can even trick the search engine into thinking your site is made up of lots of html pages). On top of that, having a database frees you from having to have a specific html page for each item and lets you keep your server real clean. Using a database is much better, if you know how to use it ;).

[The_Magus]

Dear Znupi:

I am sure you are right and I guess I have been watching the results from a site that "does not know".

I don't really have much need for anything other then what I am using at the moment but if I ever start worrying about data bases, I will do some research and make sure I learn how to "do it correctly".

Cheers

Jack
The Magus