Understanding MySQL and PHP...

[La Flames Fan]

Hey guys...

I am starting to enter a realm of web design that I'm not entirely familiar with, in fact, I don't jack crap about it...

I don't understand MySQL and PHP. I get the basic idea, but I am lost when it comes to impementing it. Basically I set up a database on my server, but I don't understand a stupid thing. Can someone put it into english terms for me?

I want to load a great number of photos for a client, but sweet jesus I don't want to have to put all of those pictures up there myself and IIRC isn't the best way to do this with the minimal effort is through databases?

What do I do?

Thanks guys

[arsenal]

Here are a few pages that might help you:

http://www.phpriot.com/d/articles/da...ages-in-mysql/
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.weberdev.com/

Ok, you set up the database, so that is a start. So, what do you want to do next? Usually, I would have setup an admin account, and a user account. User account has minimial permisions (ie: select). You can give update to the user, but only if it is actually required by the user, and make sure that the update statements are secure, so SQL Injection is not possible.

Where are you trying to put the images? Where are they now? How many images are there?

[sclitheroe]

Here's a great setup for hosting images on your own server:
http://gallery.menalto.com/

I've used it, and it works really well. No need to muck around with databases if you don't want to. You can host multiple albums, it automatically creates thumbnails, etc. Quite a complete package.

-Scott