On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Paul Sack wrote:
>I have apache configured, running, etc.
>
>I would like to learn about PHP and connecting a database,
>etc.
>Is there/what is an open-source database suitable for
>learning this?
>Any good web pages with sample databases so I don't have to
>make one up??
>Advice? Good books? Thanks. I'm trying to avoid getting the
>O'Reilly apache book if I still need the O'Reilly SQL book
>or something. (Both would be nice, but limited rsrcs.)
For a free database: try postgresql. If you're running Red Hat, you probably
already have it.
I'm doing Web/Database stuff using Meta-HTML (http://www.metahtml.com/) and
MySQL (which is free for personal and commercial use, you need a paid licence
to distribute it commercially). http://www.mysql.com/
My site is a bookstore which is dynamically generated from a database:
http://www.ibisbooks.com/
Simon
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