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Question

O.K. so, I'm just looking for advice. I'm starting a podcast for tech news at www.odt.northstarnetcasts.com (without domain www.ondemandtech.4000webs.com )

Here is my dilemma- I'd like to post what the new air dates are using a separate staff form which would save to a mysql, and view again on the main page.

I know that the homepage is a php, but it is html and called using php.

So, is there a better way to view the information from mysql without using php? Or, does anyone have any better ideas on posting new air dates?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you mean by "better". The problem is that you have information in MySQL and you need to format and display that information on a web page.

There are other languages you could use instead of PHP, such as ASP, JSP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, Perl to name a few, but they are all essentially the same in that they are server-side programming languages, because that is what you need to solve the problem. There must be an intermediary program that interfaces with the database and answers web requests to display the page.

Your only other options are to write a much more sophisticated staff form in your preferred server-side language that actually writes out an HTML page with the updated information every time you use it, or use some other storage mechanism besides MySQL. For example, you could store airdates in an XML file. But again, you still need a server-side language to interface between the storage mechanism and the page requests.

Answer 2

php is not the only solution.. You could use jsp, asp, and others server site scripting.

And yeh you could put .html .its no probs only you have to configure the servere where they will compile this html page as a scripting page.

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