Here are steps to take to save / export a database, and then to import it to copy or restore a database: Export to a text file Save as a .sql file Go to PHPMyAdmin Click on the ‘Import’ tab Browse for your .sql file If you have latin1 encoding, make sure to select that [...]

Readings PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites Larry Ullman. Visual QuickPro Guide. Peachpit Press. 2003. Collecting and storing user data from a web site has many purposes: Track the kinds of visitors and their needs Target content to specific vistors Restrict content to adults Secure transactions, such as forum conversations, product purchases, and download [...]

Examples Download the code you see in the column at the right, prepared by Pam Van Londen and James Holladay, OSU. Readings PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites Larry Ullman. Visual QuickPro Guide. Peachpit Press. 2003. Read and try chapters 4 to 10. PHP.net Type in any php function name after the domain name [...]

Readings SQLCourse.com Free interactive course online, for learning MySQL. MySQL tutorial MySQL Reference manual, chapter 3. Database Enabled Websites Tutorial recommended by OSU PHP documentation. A database is a collection of related data. It can also be viewed as a collection of related tables. Tables have sets of fields. Field types define the kind of [...]