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November 27, 2006
OK, I get it
I'd been kind of a slow adopter to the whole MySQL and PHP phenomena, but I decided to start playing with it this week and, well, I get it. It really does a lot of the same things that I've been doing in Oracle, only in a much more accessible manner. I love that my web pages don't have to be embedded inside of the database! This means that I don't have to be the one to update them! PL/SQL and SQL are the same basic language, so learning how to communicate between the web pages and database required just a bit (slightly less than 5 minutes) of learning PHP and, viola, I had my first database-driven PHP page. I'm excited to learn more about the possibilites and capabilites in the coming weeks.
Posted by gabaldoc at November 27, 2006 2:51 PM