I am embarking on a pet project, that is similar to a shopping cart. The data is already in a database. What I want to do is to read data from the database, manipulate the data and display this dereived information onto a website.
I am using Yahoo webhosting service to do this.
Can someone please advice me on what book(s) or simple online resources I can read to achive this end?
2007-05-07 04:35:54 · 3 answers · asked by Olu 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
First, you find out what middleware Yahoo! supports... PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Perl/CGI, other?
Then your choices should be clear.
2007-05-07 04:50:46 · answer #1 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's the one I use:
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Dynamic-Web-Sites/dp/0321336577/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3976867-7829437?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178567623&sr=8-1
It's very good, and has gotten good reviews, too. It starts by teaching PHP, then SQL, MySQL, and then combining the three. It closes with three sample projects including a web-based shopping cart. As you can see, it'll turn out less than 30$ after shipping, and I think it's easily worth that.
On the other hand, if you don't want to pay, the above tutorials might be helpfull. Still, I find those tedious and confusing, and harder to use than a print book.
I should mention the book does assume you have at least a minimal, working grasp of HTML.
2007-05-07 08:57:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd use PHP to interface it with the HTML and a Database.
2 online tutorials and manuals below.
2007-05-07 04:48:31 · answer #3 · answered by tool_173 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋