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Hi,

I`m wanting to learn how to create websites using databases.

Which is the easiest to pick up for someone with NO programming knowledge?

Asp or PHP? MySql or Access for databases?

Thanks in advance.

Personally I found PHP to be very easy, whereas ASP I found a little more tricky.
Sites like www.php.net are great with the online manual, and there are loads of "Teach yourself PHP" websites

For the DB side, MySQL is much more of a `proper` DB (apart from the relational database aspect - ie no integrity constraint options), but, providing you code your SQL properly then there should be no worries on that.

I also found that if you write your PHP pages to use the ODBC connection parameters instead of the MySQL ones, then you can easily switch between different types (Access/MySQL etc.) of databases - with sometimes just a few minor formatting changes for the SQL (date functions mainly)

I`ve written about 3 websites now for various IT teams where I work (even though my role is completely different!) - and they all work really well using the PHP, MySQL (via ODBC) & Apache on Win2K setup

The major benefit of MySQL is that it`s free - and there are loads of hosting services that will host a MySQL DB, but not so many that will handle the MS Access side

Hope that`s of some help
Miles

Do you know any html ? I`d start there if not. ASP.NET is pretty cool as well, definately worth a look.

I use PHP an` all and find that it`s not too bad (for a ham fisted programmer like me). I believe that you can get free web hosting with http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/ which supports PHP.

If you`ve genuinely got absolutely no programming knowledge, like Wad, I would recommend that you learn a bit of html or you`ll be lost.