At 1:15 AM -0600 5/5/08, Jorge wrote:
First I would like to say that I have had PHP experience but not
enough to say I am a PHP developer.
I want to use PHP to build a site that uses MySQL, I am building it
from scratch so I don't know where to start, should I start with PHP
and design a database around my code, or should I designs the db and
design the site are the db.
is it just a matter of preference or is there a recommended way to do this?
Contrary to all popular belief and religion -- start with an html
page that gathers the information you need/want.
After you decide what you want to gather, then design a flat database
to store that information. A database is nothing more than a place to
store and retrieve stuff.
Don't worry about the higher orders of database design just yet, get
it to work and understand what you are doing.
If you want to better your design, then pick up a couple books on
MySQL and learn what people are arguing about. However, realize that
you can get something working quite well without being a database
expert.
It's easy to get it to work -- but, to get it to work well, takes a
bit more effort.
Cheers,
tedd
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