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Asked: 2026-05-11T16:38:41+00:00

I’m creating a movies website, IMDB.com like.. I’m really new to PHP and programming

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I’m creating a movies website, IMDB.com like.. I’m really new to PHP and programming at all but I have some books and StackOverflow of course 🙂

I have already done lot of the work, but now I have more than 600 lines of code (PHO only) per page and more than 20 database tables only for storing and geting the movie data (many-to-many relationships)

Most of the code are MySQLi queries (prepared statements) to insert/get data and loops. Nothing fancy, just basic PHP/MySQL.

I have some questions:

  • It is recommended to use MySQLi prepared statements for every SQL query or is better just to use old MySQL for internal PHP/database queries and leave prepared statements for user input only?

  • To get all the movie data and show it I need to get the data from more than 16 different tables. I use one MySQL query per table (somethimes more) and lots of loops. This is the correct way a website need to work?? I mean.. this is normal???

  • How can I simplify the code to simplify the reading? Can I separete all those queries to external files?? Can I create functions to handle each table query??

Hope you can give me a hand and maybe you have some more suggestions for correctly building such a website.

Thanks!!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Consider looking at or using a web framework for your website.

    symfony
    CakePHP
    CodeIgniter

    Are some of the more mainstream ones. Learn from them if anything.

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