Question

Does anyone know of any good tutorials to build a database driven website?

I am trying to build a site, that will do the following:

1. I upload data into different tables (categories) into a MYSQL Database
2. The user on the front end selects a category
3. The database then prints out all of the data in that category

Seems simple right? But where do I start!

Answer 1

In my opinion, take up php basics from the ground up, learn your variables and what they do, if/else statements, loops n functions etc etc..and leanr how/why they operate.

once you have a handle on the basics, then do something like was suggested above like lynda.com(ive used em theyre great) and other tuts online/books etc.

To do what you want to do, not only will you need this (the basic concepts i put up above), but youll need to learn SQL/MySql as well which is another simple but easy to messup language especially at first depending on what/how/how much you want to extract from the DB, mixing it with php and printing on the page, seting up databases/tables etc etc…

ALSO, in order to organize and display your content, youll need to understand how to extract said data hence, learning the basic basics.

as far as W3Schools – for basics theyre fine.just my .02
If you do your homework, And can tackle what you need in an orderly fashion, in a few days you should be up n running.

Good luck.