How do I build a Guest Book

Thank you mdonahue and bregent, sounds as though I have a lot of reading to do. I will look into both authors books. PHP and SQL have been a mystery to me for awhile, yet I have recently learned a little about SQL in a class I'm taking.

It seems I have a lot more to learn about web development than I thought. I will probably start asking even more question now.

Thanks again for the advice. I appreciate it.

PHP and MySQL work very nicely together. A MySQL database is a nice repository for the information supplied by your guest. You use PHP to both add and retrieve the information supplied from the database.

The book PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites by Larry Ullman published by Visual Quickpro Guide is a great book for beginners. At least it was for me. Dave Powers, who frequents these forums has book recommended by many titled Foundation PHP.

It's almost a necessity to learn both together. Good Luck.
Mike D.

I appreciate the advice. Though I'm not sure I understand how MySQL is going to assist me in creating a guest book in Dreamweaver.

I was interesting in learning MySQL eventually, though at the moment that software is a little advanced. Isn't there a way to build a guest book in Dreamweaver?

mstrasko wrote:
> I would like to find out how to create a Guest Book from scratch in
> HTML or more likely in PHP (I'm familiar with HTML, yet I am still
> learning the other programming languages), that way when people visit
> my site they can leave feedback, comments, or simply ask questions,
> and instantly shows on the page. The reason I am interested in
> building it from scratch is that I want to learn while building it.
> Yet there are so many elements in Dreamweaver MX and CS3 that I don't
> know where to begin.
>
> I mentioned the two different versions of Dreamweaver because I am
> currently using the trial version of CS3, though when it expires I
> will be using MX, until I can afford to purchase CS3. Though I do all
> so have ColdFusion.

Google for mysql tutorials. At first try to read something from a mysql
database, and then try to write something...


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