This is pretty much a basic “How to” for making a very basic guestbook that uses a database instead of text. I go over everything from making the database to the table, the html form and actual posting. If you watch this video you will pretty much see the basic idea of what a guestbook is, how they work, and how to make a basic one yourself.
This video has two parts, so to understand fully, please watch both.
Part 2 and the source after the jump
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Tags: basic, guestbook, guide, howto, MySQL, PHP, PHPMyAdmin, script, SQL
I’ve decided to record how to make complete solutions for a certain problem from a High School programming competition, and the solution for it.
The problem: You are to write a program which will input a positive integer n and output the number of
divisors of n and the sum of those divisors. (Note: by divisor we mean a positive integer
divisor this includes 1 and n.)
Source code after the jump
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Tags: command line, competition, integer, modulo, numbers, PHP, problem
Developers often use the handy features included with databases to create solutions in PHP for what ever needs to be satisfied. Databases have functions like quickly matching data to Identifications, searching large sums of data, holding user information and much more that developers can utilize. There are many ways to use a database, or in this case, to interface with a database. Most databases use a rough standard of a Structured Querying Language, which is like code that the SQL server or application interprets. Read more…
Tags: create database, create table, insert, MySQL, PHP, PHPMyAdmin, SQL, sqlite, update
Want to dump your database? This video goes over the export feature of PHPMyAdmin which allows you to create and save file dumps of your database. You can use these dumps to make a duplicate database or update a pre-existing database. Or simply to backup regularly in case of database failure. I also marginally go over importing and how to import.