Bob Stia wrote:
Hello PHP list
First allow me to apologize if this is the wrong place for this and
direct me to the proper place. (be nice now!)
I know nothing about PHP and have read at least 100 faqs and googled for
hours. I don't even know some of the basics.
The fact that you've searched before coming here puts you above 99% of
the 'newbies'.
Allow me to explain. I am the webmaster for a small web site for a
Florida car club. The members have been asking if they could post info
about events, communicate community wide, maybe post their own
Classified ads, etc,
I would like to comply with their wishes for an email/blog kind of thing
but don't have the foggiest notion where to begin. The googling/faq's
don't help me a bit and appears to be pretty complicated. I don't even
know the basics. I really have no desire to go into a steep learning
curve to accomplish what should be a pretty simple thing. I need simple
and easy.
There are plenty of pre-built packages out there. Look at places like
HotScripts.com and php.resourceindex.com
I have composed in straight html (not that much,but enough) and with
several GUI's. (all open source Linux based) I compose on my system and
then simply upload to the site with FTP. I have found a few PHP
packages but are not sure what they do. They require PHP, MySQL or
Postgres, and Apache. Do I really need to install Apache? (The site is
hosted by a commercial remote ISP as a courtesy/good will thing and I
think they support PHP but do not wish to place any burden on them to
support the site) Do I really need a data base?
Unless you build the app(s) yourself, you're at the mercy of the
developers at to what is required to run the software. Most of these
pre-built packages are pretty easy to install though and you can do it
without the knowledge of PHP, MySQL, etc. Chances are, if your ISP is
running some flavor of *nix for it's web servers, they already have
Apache, PHP, and MySQL installed.
--
John C. Nichel
ÜberGeek
KegWorks.com
716.856.9675
john@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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