Linking Websites & Databases

[beeneeb]

Are there any good books about linking databases and webpages? I have been designing .html pages for a while & I want to start linking databases to webpages in order to easily change sites. What programming languages should I learn? What are some goods that I should read?

Thanks!

[NinjaCodeMonkey]

Oh man, where to begin...well, there is ASP, PHP, JSP, Perl, .NET, and a plethora of others. The easiest, in my opinion, is using a MySQL database within PHP. The reason is because PHP natively supports MySQL in its code with the use of its mysql() functions. But that's debatable. Oh, and because both technologies are free.

Some good books:
PHP and MySQL Web Development
ISBN: 0672326728

PHP and MySQL Bible
ISBN: 0764557467

There are other good ones, I just can't remember them.

[tgrk35]

I found a reall good book for PHP, MySQL, Apache...

PHP 5/MySQL Programming for the Absolute Beginner

Andy Harris
ISBN: 1-59200-484-6

I've read through chapter 1...some of chapter 2...

It's great so far...there was one mistake I found in it so far, but not too big of a deal I don't think.

Anyway, try that out. It is very straight-forward and simply written so that idiots like me can actually understand it.

Will

[ffurnai]

Also, check out PHPfreaks.com (http://phpfreaks.com) . Great tutorials and a lively forum. Seriously, there a new post every couple of seconds in the PHP Help forum.

Ian