get text data from mysql

alanford01au

It's probably very simple thing for you, but I am new at php.
Could you tell me how do I get data from mysql databsa on my server by clicking on link from my homepage.
More specifically, I have a list of articles on my index page, and what I'd like to do is when clicking on the title of article to get the detailed text info about that article which would be stored (the text info) in mysql database. You could say I could create html pages for each article, but I have more than 200 articles and that number is growing every day. I know that using php code and mysql would be ideal thing, but please advice what would be the easiest way or where can I find a suitable artice regarding this matter.
Thanks in advance.

ps: feel free to email me the response directly to my email address.

Roger_Ramjet

Try Kevin Yank's article here . You can download the first 4 chapters from his book as well. (tried to attach them for you but the zip is too big.

A full web book by Paul Hudson is here if you want more than the basics to get you started.

alanford01au

Thanks a million,
Great links. I'd definitelly consider learning php more thoroughly in the near future, but at this stage I was wondering if there could be some simple explanation or maybe some small php code that I could use (I'm very familiar with html).
Or if there is a website with some examples that I could implement and finally solve this problem.

Thanks in advance,

Roger_Ramjet

If you like the Kevin Yank article then have a look at some of his others on Sitepoint, some very usefull stuf there.

managing users with sessions

write secure scripts

are a couple that I recomend. The users and sessions one comes with fully functional code that is as good as I have seen anywhere. The secure scripts is a must read.