what to use for a database on a site?

[RSI]

What would you recommend be used for storing lots of stuff on a site? For example, on mine I want to put a very large listing of guitar tablature.. and I want to have everything listed A-Z, then bandname, and then all the songs by that band. But if I go about this by editing with notepad one by one every table and cell - it will take forever! I need to be able to quickly update it whenever needed. what would you recommend (that's fairly easy to learn) to accomplish this?

-RSI

 

[GoldenBear]

PHP all the way.

 

[RedRooster]

PHP with a mySQL back end should be fine.

 

[Adul]

Depends on what your host supports.

PHP mysql works.

Asp + access, ms sql, mysql works too.

 

[RSI]

Thanks guys. My first google link is saying similar things (MySQL, PHP). Now.. I know my server supports PHP. I'll find out if MySQL is involved there (does it have to be?).

Any places that could help me out with learning PHP (seems like I'll need it)?

-RSI

 

[Kayes]

LAMP !!

Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP

for more info about php, try php.net and zend.org.

 

[RSI]

Thanks. Unfortunately I won't be able to do Linux, but MySQL and PHP and Apache seem alright. Looks like I have a lot ahead of me!

-RSI