<quote who="Terry Collins">
> Actually, I think your sentences here contradict each other. I'll agree
> that O'Reilly books, generally, are okay for reference books, but I
> don't think they are necessarily the best way of getting up to speed if
> that involves learning something.
Everything's the same once you've learned it all before - just variations on
a theme. :) That's where the O'Reilly books are great. I wish, however, that
I was slightly closer to that level of 'oneness' with computing science Zen.
;)
> Actually, I don't want to learn Perl, I want to interface my MySQL
> database to WWW pages and the only book I have is the O'Reilly Mysql &
> Msql, which uses Perl & C examples.
Good lord. I must be underslept:
Try PHP. If you want quick, fairly simple "database'n'webpage" stuff, PHP is
probably your quickest route. You could also simply use Python or Ruby for
CGI scripts - I wouldn't recommend mod_python, mod_snake or mod_ruby, as
then you'd have to learn more about Apache internals than just "page does
database" type things.
PHP originally stood for 'Personal HomePage', and it's *great* for doing
that sort of stuff.
- Jeff
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