Newbie Php/mysql

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OK … since nobody else … I shall attempt to give my 'offering' ..

First: 'FrontPage-like' and PHP is not very much in harmony! Microsoft developed ASP as their Webserver preprocessor language (to compete with PHP and JSP), and I don't think any M$-style GUI tool for web development supports PHP.

Actually I think that with PHP you will basically have to accept to write CODE. You may of course find a design tool with good PHP syntax highligtening and that sort of things. Macromedia Dreamweaver is very good, but expensive. It is also good in the respect that it does not change the CODE itself, when you open a file – as Frontpage does and as Adobe GoLive does.

There are some tools available that can generate PHP code from some kind of template or a database Schema. All I have seen is crap.

With the sort of application that you are thinking of you will also basically need to combine some kind of forms control with a Database enabled scripting language (PHP). That means in practice that your code will be some 'mix' of DHTML (that is basically HTML + CSS + JAVASCRIPT) and PHP. I don't think XFORMS is yet ready to replace DHTML (though it would be preferable), but I may be wrong is this.

Tutorials, resources… That is one advantage with PHP. You will will lots of PHP resources on the internet. The PHP community is very open. A simple google search: http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&…=utf-8&oe=utf-8. Also there are a lot of Forums where people are willing to help .. in all levels.

But it is 'nice work', I think … Get started and then you will be able to ask more specific questions. And there are better places than here for that!

And I have seen some people starting from scratch being able to do wonderful things in a few months!

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