connecting a database to a website

smanhead1

Thanks very much. I will try the tutorial.

wolfman

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

have a look at ruby on rails - there are some very easy guides on how to get websites up and running with rails as it maps all the ddatabases for you automatically.

There are plenty of other similar alternatives (although RoR was the original).

Have a look at Django for something even more easier and impressive.

Also for .Net there is Codesmith (with the NetTiers templates) and SubSonic.

Just Google each of the above.

Blacksheep1979

sweven wrote: »

Looks like a Linux server so you would use PHP as your scripting language and MySQL databases to connect to.

http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql is one of a number of tutorials you could use to learn how to do this.

or you can still use rails on linux v easily

thor

sweven wrote: »

Thor - connecting a database to a website allows you to make it 'dynamic'. What this means is that the website can show different information to different people depending upon a variety of criteria.

For instance, I run a website for an estate agency - users can search for property by location, price etc. The results page then draws the information from the database and creates the HTML to send to the user showing the properties they are interested in.

Alternatively, the site might check a cookie on the user's machine to see when they last visited, and then show them only new properties since then.

That is what I have always suspected but you have worded it so that it makes sense to me. Thanks.