php and sql

[L3wis]

Hi all im a n00b to both of these languages, but i know a little asp. I was wondering how to go about taking my website making to another level and start using databases. And then have users create queries to display different contents. What i'd want to eventually do is have a online gallery, to display paintings and stuff. Any ideas are more than welcome because as i said i'm very new. I think i have efficent web hosting to do this too.

Please help me

[pyro]

For PHP, you'll want to take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php, and when finished, remember to use the manual (http://www.php.net/manual/en/)..

Also, take a look at some or all of these sites:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/
http://www.phpfreaks.com/
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/index.html
http://php.resourceindex.com/
http://www.zend.com/
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/

or more links can be found at http://www.php.net/links.php

As for MySQL, you'll want to keep http://www.mysql.com/ in mind, and also take a look at http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/MySQL.

[L3wis]

cheers for the reply, good websites with plenty of info to be read up on. I have another question. Is it possible to do what im trying to do without using databases? and just php?

Many Thanks

[pyro]

Depends on exactly what you are trying to do, but odds are real good you wouldn't want to use a database. Certainly not to just include content - for that use include (http://php.us.themoes.org/include/).