[UUG/MLUG] PHP and MySQL on MLUG Server

[William F Bishop <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

At 11:38 PM 11/26/99 PST, Michael wrote:
>I like to keep my web pages as compact and neat as possible. Will
>doubtlessly add to it in time but as much information will be stored per
>page as can be layed out in an easy to use form. My scripts though allow
>multiple pages in the same directory to use the same layout so you could do
>a fairly nice homepage bundle with it.
>
>PHP can handle most anything you want I think. I've had some problems with
>bugs but version 4 will be out soon and should fix most of them. IMO PHP is
>a very easy to learn/use language and yes it is server-side preprocessor
>coding for HTML. I was working on a link validating program but I can't seem
>to get one vital function to work so it'll have to wait. What I'd suggest
>though is if you are storing a list of URL's for display in a group is to
>use PHP to store them in a MySQL db so that you can just run them through a
>script to validate them now and then and search them and all that sort of
>stuff. Makes for easy upkeep.
	Just started "playing with php" past weekend...  :-)...  have been 
telneting to mlug.missouri.edu and using the php there...  since I have
a few webpages located on that server I placed a link "...playing with 
php..." on the main webpage at http://mlug.missouri.edu/~wbishop/...  which
has a few links to some Internet php tutorials...  and a link to a php webpage
that I am using to explore...  first found out about PHP from the presentation
at the MLUG Expo a few weeks ago...  then it dawned on me that PHP is 
probably located on the MLUG server...  so looked and found it there...
:-)...
wonder how many other folks have used PHP on the MLUG server?...  haven't
looked into MySQL yet...  about 10 years ago I worked a bit with Oracle and
SQLPro (I think it was) on a VAX machine...  so am feeling comfortable with
the
slow exploring of php on this MLUG server...		Bill

William F Bishop       EMAIL:PROTECTED
Bishop Computing   http://mlug.missouri.edu/~wbishop/