Hi all - I am Mogens from BC in Canada - and I now realize that I have to learn this PHP thing, as I am left with a web site that uses it - with the programmer gone.... and, I need to make some changes and improvements.... I am pretty good with HTML - but PHP has thrown me completely off.... I have no clue where to begin. I can make a little meaning out of some of teh code on my pages, but not at all enough to understand what is actually going on. I bought some books and e-books about it, hoping to learn this - but I have yet to find anything that makes sense, WITHOUT assuming that I am a full-time professional tech who makes a living on maintaining a commercial web server... I have a database (MySQL) connected to my web site, and an affiliate program running that uses it - and it works. The tasks I am looking at includes what I believe are very simple tasks, like: - I need to be able to read a value in the database and display it on a web page that is in .php format with html coding; I refuse to believe that I need to read a 600-page book in order to that... - I need to make a web page for myself that will allow me to search in the database for all purchases made by a given customer; this one, I acknowledge, could be more cumbersome, as it deals with more than one parameter. - I need to use the above to do stats and math on the data; tis is less urgent, but it will be important for me later. I found a web page that appears to cover quite a bit of what I am looking for. It is called a PHP CLASS - whatever that means. The URL is http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2943.html - it contains no explanations in regards to what it is and how it works. It this where I should start? Or will that just lead me into more frustrations? Where do I find an overview of the terminology, so pages like this are a little better than Greek to me? Any ideas and suggestions are certainly welcome. Cheers, Mogens PHP Data object relational mapping generator http://www.metastorage.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
