i'm working on a website that is going to require a database and i need some ideas for a (free) solution to store and search entries. it needs to be fairly easy to set up and use, as i don't have time to get really fancy with it. i'd attempt to create it myself, but i'm on a time frame and need a quick and easy solution. ideas?

8/7/2005 3:20:45 PM

mysql

http://www.mysql.org

8/7/2005 3:38:59 PM

php front end, mysql backend

8/7/2005 3:54:58 PM

i don't like php, try again

8/7/2005 3:55:24 PM

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/

8/7/2005 4:02:11 PM

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"i don't like php, try again "

Well, you could use Perl, but if you want something quick and easy to setup, code, and use, then you're probably going to want to do it in PHP.

8/7/2005 4:16:02 PM

php is not easy to me for some reason. i keep messing with it and something just doesn't register.

8/7/2005 5:05:52 PM

well, they don't get any easier

8/7/2005 5:27:07 PM

Did you dorks not see the link I posted.

8/7/2005 5:27:50 PM

yeah, that's great for admining mysql, the question now is the programming/script side aspects of accessing that database


what are you coding in if you don't like php. and don't say HTML, because that's not a programming language anyway and you can't access any database with just HTML.

8/7/2005 5:52:21 PM

Learn PHP.

8/7/2005 5:52:55 PM

Java Servlets/JSP are way way easier than PHP

8/7/2005 5:56:06 PM

and yet php remains a better choice for doing this kind of work

8/7/2005 6:05:20 PM

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"what are you coding in if you don't like php. and don't say HTML, because that's not a programming language anyway and you can't access any database with just HTML."

please don't insult my intelligence.

gargs, that actually sounds pretty good. i am more comfortable with java than php.

8/7/2005 6:24:49 PM

PM SENT

8/7/2005 6:57:45 PM

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"please don't insult my intelligence. "

not meant to hurt anyone's intellegence, but you'd be surprised when some people talk about "programming" a webpage and wanting to add a database to it and wanting to do it with HTML because that is what they are "programming" with.

8/7/2005 7:10:49 PM

LAMP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_%28software_bundle%29]

[Edited on August 8, 2005 at 1:51 PM. Reason : *]

8/8/2005 1:49:42 PM

.net, far better than java

access is an easy database to use with it

8/8/2005 9:09:58 PM

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"(free)"

8/8/2005 9:10:50 PM

haha... kind of like when people refer to themselves as "technicians" because they read somewhere how to run a defrag and install a CD drive.

8/8/2005 9:56:36 PM

Did you just refer to MS Access in the context of a usable database?

I second LAMP but in your case you could go WAMP.

8/8/2005 9:59:23 PM