Posted by Frankly on 05/06/06 00:14

"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> Frankly wrote:
>
>> no matter what way i go i feel that PHP is in my future. I am also
>> wondering about ColdFusion and even ASP.net
>
> I'm quite much against VisualBasic (ASP), as it limits you to more or less
> to microsoft servers, would make it more difficult to switch webhotel.
> ColdFusion is limited in quite the same manner. No matter what you choose,
> you still need to "code" to be able to do something.


I can understand your feelings with those products.

>
> In this case you need to ask your wife how she would like the application
> to work, how she wants to work, no real point in making something and
> modify it afterwards to please your wife. She don't have to know anything
> at all about programming, all she has to know is what she want to enter
> and how the design should look like (in which order the input boxes should
> be and so on).

These are things I will have to figure out. At the same time I really have
no idea what
options are available to me. It needs to be as simple as possible.
Query by form is the term I think used for the way she will search.
as far as data entry. i dont think she will be doing much of that. She
cant type at
all. i tried to get her to learn but how do you push someone that is
already pushing as hard as they can.
She will do fine with the database where all she will have to do is mark
Available and NotAvailable via
a yes no feild. any new properties she can handle on hard copy. with even
some kind of scheduling field for making calls.
Some landlords are so big i call them every 2 weeks. All this in time.
right now i have yet to
do the table layout in PHP MyAdmin.

> Much depends what you think is timely, of course a first project, no
> matter what you do will take longer than what your second project will.
> IMHO it's planing that is the most important thing to do, the more you
> have planed before you sit down and try to write the code, the less time
> you will need to spend in front of the computer and code and usually the
> end result is a lot better too.

I have this stuff on the brain now. no matter what I am doing, this is what
I am thinking about.
not only the database but everything that needs to be done in order to
create a database driven web site.
idealy i would like to learn enough to put a property or 2 and then move on
to trying to get those things to show on the web site. then i will be able
to relax and fine tune my skills.


>
>
>> thank you again.. I may stay away from it again today but I am also very
>> curious about how the little I learned will help me in MySQL.
>
> Maybe a SQL tutorial could be of use, found this (not sure if it's a good
> one or not): http://www.sqlcourse.com/

I went through a few pages already. I also have a tutorial for PHPmy Admin
ebook.
tomorrow i will start again.

>
> The basics in SQL is quite the same, regardless if it's MySQL, Oracle,
> Sybase or any other sql server you are working with, just keep in mind
> that all of them have something that is different from other sql products.
>
>
> //Aho

being my web host already has it ready. I will be using PHP myAdmin for
MySQL.
I am actually looking foward to trying it again. i thank those helping for
that.
Frank

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