Started Work

Hello all,

As this is the first post I should probably talk about the outline of this blog. For starters my name is Chris, as well as a friend who will be posting and working with my on this site Will. I am just getting the beginning stages started, and we will be teaching ourselves PHP along with any other aspects of such as MySQL, CSS, and HTML. Some of this we are already familiar with and some we are not. This blog will be a timeline of our progress as well as what we are learning throughout this process.

Now to get down to business. I was able to get some work started on this website. What I am going for at the moment is a site that will act as a database to hold our DVD collection. It will house a MySQL database as well as have a php front end and hopefully a relatively decent HTML/CSS look. Tonight when I got home from work I talked to Will and created a database for our first attempt at this. I am sure we will have to redo the entire database as well as clean up code after we are done, leaving us with another project hopefully getting better and better at this as we go.

The database I created today includes 8 tables such as Titles, Actors, Genres, Users, as well as tables to relate the data together. I also was able to create the include file for the connection to the database which (in theory) will allow us to put one line of code on each page we want to connect to the database.

I am hoping in the next few days depending on how much time I have, to enter some data in the database by hand and test to make sure everything is connecting and make sure I can pull data out of the table. Then it will be on to making pages to enter the data. More on this in my next post.

also by the way the site address is http://stonec.org any comments, feedback, ideas, or just thoughts would be appreciated.