I’m probably way more proud of this than I should be, but look what I just made!
True, it’s no g-blog.net – but it is technically my first database driven website that hasn’t relied on pre-written packages.
I mentioned a project I was going to use to get started writing database-driven sites a LONG time back. This isn’t it, but I’m now one step closer to finishing that.
goes back to futzing with his lame joke database…
(Hey Gossip, how about a “Coding/PHP” category? It could replace “Computers/Programming” which is redundant with “Coding”. Yeah, I know I’m the one that asked for “Computers/Programming” originally – but I didn’t see “Coding” for some dumb reason.)
Edited on Nov 22nd 2002, 17:53 by Hooloovoo
I guess I should explain what’s going on with that page… I have a database table called “Jokes” (although, I may change it to “BadJokes”.)
jokes.php connects to the database, and prints out all the jokes in the table – some are 2 part Joke/Punchline – some are 1 part Joke. Right now all the jokes have to be entered into the database directly. The next step is to add a form that allows site vistors to add thier own bad jokes to the database. Other things I may do are add a “random joke” lookup and a display/search by joke type, (Knock Knock, Chicken, Lightbulb, etc.) That second one will require changes to the table structure – but shouldn’t be too hard.
Nice work, keep going! 🙂
“Coding /Web”. 😉
Sweet – that would also cover other technologies like XML/XHTML/JS etc.
Updating blogs now…
looks good. congrats
Its more an exercise than anything else – I found a basic online tutorial, looked at the example and said “hey I can do that, and I can add this and this and this too…”
I also spoke with a friend about my (well our – it’s her database and will be my code) other PHP project. The main thing I need to get that one started is the data. Should be emailed to me today, I hope. Which means I can get stared on it over the weekend.
Anyone know how to convert an Access Database to MySQL? I’m hoping the data gets delivered as a CSV ASCII file, but if it isn’t I was wondering if there was an easy way to do the conversion.
Edited on Nov 22nd 2002, 18:42 by Hooloovoo
No, not from the top of my head. But then again, can’t you just export a CSV file from Access?
that’s really cute. I even submitted a really bad joke.
@6 in theory yes, and that’s what I’ve asked for – but wether or not that is acually what I get is another issue. Oh, and do you mind if I scour the code for glue to get ideas on how to deal with formatting user input?
@7 I saw your joke. Pretty bad – it’s been added.
should write an admin page so he doesn’t have to keep typing that sql query to approve jokes.
Access to MySQL: yes, do it via CSV. Unless it’s a stupidly large database and you have access to SQL Server, in which case use DTS to do the donkey work. The latest version of phpMyAdmin has a nice interface to LOAD which I used to bring a 1000 record Access database into MySQL in a few minutes.
Nice work Hool. The code. Not the jokes. That’s bad work 😉
okay – CSV it is… I’m still waiting on the delivery of that data so I can start working on that project. In the meantime, I’ll continue futzing around with my bad joke page – and trying to convert peeps to Jabber.