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Asked: 2026-05-26T10:35:14+00:00

I am a beginner at using mysql/phpmyadmin, and have never used a cms before.

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I am a beginner at using mysql/phpmyadmin, and have never used a cms before. I’m trying to get my head around how I could possibly add a ‘similar posts’ type script – but instead of showing posts, I would like to show some similar images (similar projects) when viewing each project page of my website.

My website setup is fairly simple:

  1. main html page
  2. profile html page
  3. portfolio php page -> has thumbnail images with links to php generated url project pages
  4. project page -> a dynamic php page that generates pages from pagination
  5. contact html page.

The project php page has a jquery slideshow, project title and project overview text. The page uses three sql database tables for the data (slideshow images/text, page id for the pagination and one for normalisation), and uses pagination to change the data, creating a page for each project.

I’d really appreciate any ideas/opinions on how I could go about doing this – with sql, or am better off using a CMS (if so, do you know of a really simple one that could suit my website setup?).

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you’re mainly wondering how you determine similarity, then you can do that with a text search in MySQL. I also found this page if you want to go to the trouble of building a tagging database schema. The former is simpler, but the latter is a really useful if you want to practice joins.

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