8 - PHP:MySQL - Introduction
MySQL is a database that can be one of your most powerful web development tools. This will be just a brief introduction to MySQL. We'll log in to the server using Putty, a freeware telnet client.
From the command line, we'll create a table in a database I've already made. We'll look at how to insert, modify, delete and search for information from the table via the command line. The purpose of this is to show you some basics of SQL in general, and how to work with MySQL on the server.
Once we've had an introduction to MySQL at the command line, we'll learn how to have a PHP page talk to a database on the server. This is where the real power and magic of PHP/MySQL begins!