SomeLuigi (2012-06-11 21:36:46)

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Well, it's a bit of a story AND a little note to others to make sure nobody else follows my path.


I signed up for a free hosting account on 1gb.me (I do not recommend). Great, I thought, I was destined to make a cool website.

I already roughly knew HTML. I was interested in PHP. I spent numerous hours trying to learn PHP on various tutorial sites, aswell as in various books I had found through the house.

I had a pretty "slick" idea to store everything - every user that would register would be given a folder in /users/ which would contain all their information. I couldn't help but wonder what phpMyAdmin was in the freehost panel. It had the icon of a mountain with initials 'PMA'. I decided to ignore it.

I got quite far into development until I noticed that several functions were off-limits because of PHP safe-mode. I found that upgrading out of safe mode would cost me $10 USD , and I gave up. Several months later, I found about x10hosting and signed up there. I found out that I had forgot most of my PHP, so I went to learn that.


Then w3schools prompted me to learn MySQL. My answer?

NO. Why? Because I took an opinionated view about all the 'mysql errors' on 3DSPlaza, I decided I didn't want to learn any of that "crap".


And I end the story here, because the rest of the story isn't interesting.

I'd just like to tell you this:


- Don't take opinionated views because someone else has trouble with it (in 3DSPlaza's case, it was the host's fault)

- Don't be scared to learn MySQL: It's pretty much fully English.

- Don't use flat file databases; use a proper engine/system like MySQL (great software, by the way).

Well, that's the end of this post.

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CoolApps (2012-06-14 16:51:20)

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Nice

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wellsandlava (2013-11-06 06:21:20)

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Mine is a darker story to leaning to code...

I can't even tell you it.

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LincolnN9neN9ne (2013-11-20 07:08:49)

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Interesting.

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angelrulez7 (2013-12-21 07:42:42)

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MySQL is a database format. MySQLi is a stable code for usage of MySQL in PHP. MySQLi connects to a MySQL database. (More secure than the depricated as of PHP 5.5.x mysql functions) MySQLi is just a reworked MySQL function. -NotARealWebDeveloperIBet

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