advice on php/database for a newbie

[sing2trees]

Hi everyone,

On a previous thread, I was advised to use oscommerce and it states to create a database and user using phpmyadmin.

I am completely new to the world on php - and whilst I've checked my host supports php - im now lost!

Can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial explaining phpmyadmin, php or give any advice?

Many thanks!

Ben

[sypher]

first off check www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/

[sing2trees]

Tried that - just got a page not found message!

[sypher]

Okay, email your host and ask them the url to the control panel for your account.

[sing2trees]

I will give that ago and let you know! Thanks!!

[rproctor]

Most hosts will use phpmyadmin because its free and its powerful, but they may use something else. Either way, it all really is the same thing. Some key things to know in the process of setting up your database is knowing how to create users, which you can do with phpmyadmin, but most hosts use a seperate program for that, and then how to connect the user to the database. Becareful though because most hosts when you create a table or a user will have YOUR user name prefixed to it. So you create the database "test" when you connect to it, it will most likely be called "yourname_test" see? Im pretty sure your host will have a faq or something to supply you with, but its all quite simple.