OMG thank you so much kitiara!

This is my first step into the world of PHP...excited, yet nervous. There's just so much you can do with PHP, I figure I may as well start getting into it.
Hittin' the bookstore on my way home from work again to do some more studying.
Any handy PHP script sites you recommend?

This one's pretty good

http://php.resourceindex.com/

Has a mixture of free and paid for scripts

Oh man Paul your in for it now... not one but two females... I only become aggressive when someone steals "My" Sonic games =P LOL my poor husband he even gets near a box with his hand and I start growling if he physically picks it up and runs off into another room with it I follow not far behind him to get it back... but then again he is like a freackin Mack Truck and I am like a Ford Escort "aka" light weight and he is just dead weight so haha it is not as easy to get it back as one thinks... in other words even if I was aggressive... I am NO threat...

Wait that might be a bad thing to say... =P

And Petra so what I tell you... they saved you from hours of flustrations! or has this happened already.. if so then "less hours" of flustrations...

-RMS Carpathia-

Hmm, dunno about anyone else, but If I saw an oceanliner chasing me, i'd be scared, very scared

Sorry to derail yer thread Petra

Question, what were you trying to do with said database?
Were you setting up an application/forum which uses mysql?

I see myself on this web site for the remainder of the evening lol. Soooo much kewl stuff! Thanks Adam!

And yes Carpathia, you have no idea what shape I was in last night trying to figure this out. A bottle of Vodka was involved! I HATE not being able to figure out something, more than anything. If I cant do something, I get really mad lol.

HAHAHAHA Oh my god Adam that got me rolling in laughter! Thank you for having my sides hurt... you hit me just right, at the right time! I am already giggly as it is right now and yes...

And sorry to hyjack your thread Petra

Okay ignore me and read everyone elses post ^_^

And Ewww Vodka mad! *imagens Petra's computer being repeatdly bashed up against the wall and making loud noises with a bunch of large dinges on its carpace* Things are better between you and your computer now? =P

-RMS Carpathia-

I just want to apply a database to my pre-existing web site to keep a news archive and an events calendar for all of his racing events. The news would fill a table I have assigned already for it. I would need to show the Date, Author (so users can tell if he or myself added the update), and of course the News. I want a sentence or two to appear on the web site, but then have a "click for more" at the end, where the end-user then clicks to read the rest of the article.
I'd also like a database for his finishes.
Eventually once I get better at PHP, I'd like to have a user name login for him where he can go in, and fill out a form of his own news updates so he can leave me alone while I play WoW lol!
I also would like to create a database for all of his photos on the web site.

Just never got into PHP before

Here are my del.icio.us links for php -
http://del.icio.us/phlyersphan/php

Also, check out http://www.hotscripts.com for more scripts.

Basic tutorials - http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

Quick reference - http://www.devguru.com/technologies/php/home.asp

Articles, code samples, lots of stuff - http://www.phpbuilder.com/

Books - I recommend:

Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL Web Development by Elizabeth Naramore et al, published by Wrox (red covers) - http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Apac...4599943&sr=1-2

Learning PHP5 by David Sklar, published by O'Reilly (animals on the cover) - http://www.amazon.com/Learning-PHP-5...4600010&sr=1-2

PHP for the World Wide Web - Visual Quickstart Guide (4th edition) - simple and straightforward -
http://www.amazon.com/World-Third-Vi...4600210&sr=1-1

PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites - Visual QuickPro Guide by Ullman - http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Dyna...4600210&sr=1-2

and the best all around book (I teach my PHP class with it) -
PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling. The latest edition (4th edition) is coming out in a couple weeks, so I'd wait for that if I were you (though the 3rd edition is widely available) -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067...d_i=0672326728

kitiara you are the bestest-est ever! :grin:

Carpathia LMFAO!!!! Yes, 'puter and I are now speaking again.