Totally Noobie Needs Help
Posted: 29. October 2008 13:03
Hello!
I am trying to learn how to use PHP and MySQL. I try to read through the forums and do Google searches for answers, but nearly everything seems to assume that the reader has considerable knowledge of...all sorts of things. I do not have any such pre-existing knowledge (well, not much anyway), so I need someone to "take me by the hand" and walk me through things step-by-step.
So. I've installed Xampp and it seems to be running. I have written a simple "Hello World" .php page and been able to access it with a browser and it worked. So I'm assuming all is well.
But I really need to shift to MySQL and don't know where to start. So let me ask the first question and--after that gets answered and I get it working--I'll ask #2 and so on. Perhaps it'll turn into a guide that can be used by other novices!
I need to make sure I can "connect" to MySQL server. I've got a teeeeny tiny amount of learning in by sitting in on a Microsoft SQL Server (Express 5) class and when we wanted to issue DDL commands, we opened a command window and typed sqlcmd <command>
What's the equivalent of sqlcmd in MySQL under the Xampp setup?
Thanks for this and all future help.
---Damian
I am trying to learn how to use PHP and MySQL. I try to read through the forums and do Google searches for answers, but nearly everything seems to assume that the reader has considerable knowledge of...all sorts of things. I do not have any such pre-existing knowledge (well, not much anyway), so I need someone to "take me by the hand" and walk me through things step-by-step.
So. I've installed Xampp and it seems to be running. I have written a simple "Hello World" .php page and been able to access it with a browser and it worked. So I'm assuming all is well.
But I really need to shift to MySQL and don't know where to start. So let me ask the first question and--after that gets answered and I get it working--I'll ask #2 and so on. Perhaps it'll turn into a guide that can be used by other novices!
I need to make sure I can "connect" to MySQL server. I've got a teeeeny tiny amount of learning in by sitting in on a Microsoft SQL Server (Express 5) class and when we wanted to issue DDL commands, we opened a command window and typed sqlcmd <command>
What's the equivalent of sqlcmd in MySQL under the Xampp setup?
Thanks for this and all future help.
---Damian