Creating a DMOZ-like site using PHP and MySQL
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:29 am
I don't know if this is the right forum to ask in, considering it's both PHP and MySQL but I'll ask anyway 
I want to create a DMOZ (http://dmoz.org) like site that will document abbreviations. I guess it's going to be more like OpenSite (http://open-site.org) because there won't be any links...but anyway. I want to do it in PHP with MySQL. I don't want to have the back-end (editor's interface) in CGI like it is at DMOZ and OpenSite, because CGI is hard and I don't like it. PHP is much easier
Would I be able to do this? [Hmm wonder if there are programmers from either of those projects lurking around....eh probibly not
] Basically, the site needs to do the following:
Public side: Display the stuff from the MySQL database using HTML and PHP
Editor's side: Using PHP and HTML forms, input the information into the MySQL database. I can do the interface and the HTML forms, but what I don't know how to do is tell PHP how to process them in the way I want.
Thanks for your help
I want to create a DMOZ (http://dmoz.org) like site that will document abbreviations. I guess it's going to be more like OpenSite (http://open-site.org) because there won't be any links...but anyway. I want to do it in PHP with MySQL. I don't want to have the back-end (editor's interface) in CGI like it is at DMOZ and OpenSite, because CGI is hard and I don't like it. PHP is much easier
Public side: Display the stuff from the MySQL database using HTML and PHP
Editor's side: Using PHP and HTML forms, input the information into the MySQL database. I can do the interface and the HTML forms, but what I don't know how to do is tell PHP how to process them in the way I want.
Thanks for your help