gooncorp
06-27-2007, 08:33 AM
Hi there.
I'm posting this thread not for help with coding as such, more for a general idea of how to structure a website I'm about to start writing.
At the end of summer, I'll be moving into a flat with a couple of other mates from uni. We'll have two computers running linux, two laptops running windows, and a very low-spec (500MHz, 512Mb RAM or so) server running on linux, using Apache for server software. Into the server will be a couple of large external hard drives containing about 300Gb of files. What I'm going to be doing is creating some sort of database with a front end run through a web browser which you'll be able to use to search the external drives for files, or to browse files, which you can then download or stream to local machines.
At the moment, I know html, css, javascript and a bit of C. I've got a book on php and mySQL, which I'm working my way through. Does anyone have any advice on how I should structure the database, set up code for downloads, etc? I'm probably going to write most of the site in php, as this seems the most suitable, but would you reccomend a different language?
Also, does anyone know if it's possible to get HTML-Kit for linux, without using wine?
Thanks.
I'm posting this thread not for help with coding as such, more for a general idea of how to structure a website I'm about to start writing.
At the end of summer, I'll be moving into a flat with a couple of other mates from uni. We'll have two computers running linux, two laptops running windows, and a very low-spec (500MHz, 512Mb RAM or so) server running on linux, using Apache for server software. Into the server will be a couple of large external hard drives containing about 300Gb of files. What I'm going to be doing is creating some sort of database with a front end run through a web browser which you'll be able to use to search the external drives for files, or to browse files, which you can then download or stream to local machines.
At the moment, I know html, css, javascript and a bit of C. I've got a book on php and mySQL, which I'm working my way through. Does anyone have any advice on how I should structure the database, set up code for downloads, etc? I'm probably going to write most of the site in php, as this seems the most suitable, but would you reccomend a different language?
Also, does anyone know if it's possible to get HTML-Kit for linux, without using wine?
Thanks.