Help with PHP/MySQL

[kgpri2]

Hi all,

I'm creating a website that will (primarily) have thousands of videos. Rather than using a template to create a new HTML page for each new video(i.e. to avoid having to create thousands of HTML pages), I want to use PHP so that clicking a particular video link will 1. open the (one and only) video player page and 2. get the relevant video file. I've configured PHP/MySQL/Apache/phpMyAdmin and have them running smoothly. I'm not sure if we need to create a database in MySQL to hold the videos(and/or their details) or whether PHP code alone will be sufficient.

Thanks guys

[revdev]

i would want to use a database. you can store the video's author, category, and whatever other information you wanted, along with the path to and filename of the video. then you could just use an 'id' row or something and call it from php.

for example:

http://www.foobar.com/view_movie.php?id=324

then you could query the database and pull the row with an id of 324. you could display all your information and play it.

that's sort of a general idea of how i would do it.

[bradgrafelman]

Sounds a lot like this thread.