Posted by BlueC on 06/24/06 18:05

Zach wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to teach myself PHP and MySQL to make a website. I was
> looking into what I need to install to get PHP and MySQL working on my
> computer and I saw someone suggest using appserv
> (www.appservnetwork.com) on another post. So I downloaded it and
> installed it, and I guess everything went well...but now what? Apache
> is running, I told MySQL to "start", but I don't know what to do now.
>
> I tried writing a php script called test.php3 in notepad and saving it
> on my computer, but Internet Explorer won't open it. Plus...how do I
> get into MySQL to enter data into the database. I'm confused! I feel
> confident that I can learn the coding if I could just get started!
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Zach
>
Actually I do know a bit: try looking for mysql and php tutorials on the
web. www.w3schools.com would be a good place to start - it helped me a
lot and that was many years ago.

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