I'm a confused newbie, please help

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Anathema
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I'm a confused newbie, please help

Post by Anathema »

Greetings,
First off, let me introduce myself. My name is James and I am pretty new at website development, so please bare with me :D

The server that I run my website off of supports MYSQL, but they charge annually for every database. Now, to my understanding I need to have a database to use php scripts on my site, am I right?
Assuming I am, is there a place for me to have a MYSQL database for free that will work on my site so I can use PHP? Or am I a total idiot?
Please point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
James
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Post by jason »

You don't NEED MySQL to run PHP, it's just that many PHP scripts use MySQL. However, you can easily NOT use MySQL ora database with PHP, and simply use Text files.

You wouldn't be the first. =)
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Post by MattF »

I don't know if http://www.freesql.org is still around but they used to provide free mySQL databases to people. Some people complained of down time but I never had any in 6 months. I think it's a good service.
Anathema
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Thanks guys!
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