PHP newbie

[Wasiu0607]

Hey I'm a php newbie and I have a question about it. When I want to make a site where users can register for an account and also be able to login, how/where do I store the database of users? Is it inside mySQL?

[MrCoder]

You would store the information in a table within a database that is hosted on a MySQL server.

There are lots of tutorials on PHP & MySQL, I would start by looking at the tutorials "Learn SQL" and "Learn PHP" at www.w3schools.com (http://www.w3schools.com).

[Wasiu0607]

You would store the information in a table within a database that is hosted on a MySQL server.

There are lots of tutorials on PHP & MySQL, I would start by looking at the tutorials "Learn SQL" and "Learn PHP" at www.w3schools.com (http://www.w3schools.com).


All the tutorials I've been to start telling me about variables. Exactly how many variables are there for php? It confuses me when the tutorial just says $txt out of nowhere, I mean is $txt the same as $text? For a beginner, this is really confusing!

[MrCoder]

Variables are used to store information, you can name them whatever you wish as long as it is a valid name.


<?php

$text = "My Text";

echo $text;

?>


The above code assigns the value of "My Text" to a variable called 'text' and then outputs the value stored in 'text' to the client via the echo function.

'text' could be anything, it is just a friendly way of storing data.

Read more about variables here (http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.php)