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Originally Posted by Altoo  Thank you very much!
The thing that bugs me about most of the programming (well apart from HTML) is that I can't see any examples of where the Mysql is used or where PHP is used. A lot of tutorials wander off into technicality's without examples of where Mysql/php is used. |
MySQL is not actually a language, but a database product that supports the Structured Query Language (SQL).
In the context of web applications, PHP is used to build dynamic websites (as opposed to a 'static' website comprised of HTML pages stored on your server). When your dynamic website handles a lot of data, it generally makes sense to store that data in a database [but this is not a requirement]. At this point SQL comes in as the language you use to communicate with your database. Conceptually, all (MySQL) database driven PHP websites boil down to the following:
<?php
$myData = UseSQLToQueryDataFromDatabase();
WriteNiceHTMLPageWithData($myData);
?>
Easy huh?
