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Beginning MySQL question

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  • 30-10-2007 12:39pm
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    mathie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,102 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I've a website and been told that I should use MySQL as a database.
    Im a Microsoft Access/SQL man normally.
    Now the website uses a Linux server.

    What do I need to download for my PC to create a MySQL database?
    And do I use PHP scripts on the website to interact with the database?

    Any help appreciated!
    Thanks
    M


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    rmacm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭rmacm


    mathie wrote: »
    What do I need to download for my PC to create a MySQL database?
    And do I use PHP scripts on the website to interact with the database?

    If you're doing your web development on a Windows machine give a look at xampp http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

    This will let you play around with Apache, MySQL and PHP on your local machine. Depending on what your hosting provider supports you could use PHP, Perl, Python or a number of other languages to interact with the database. PHP is probably supported and you can use this to interact with with the db.

    Cheers
    Rory


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