[thelist] XML as poor man's database?

Jeremy Weiss jweiss at cox-internet.com
Sat Jan 28 21:16:35 CST 2006


Tom,

I taught myself to use php fairly well over the last year or so just by
looking at sample scripts at places like http://www.phpfreaks.com/ and
http://php.resourceindex.com/ and then reading through the documentation at
http://www.php.net/

HTH,
-jeremy


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Schmidt" <ildenizen at insightbb.com>
To: <evolt at markgroen.com>; <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] XML as poor man's database?


> Thank you for you advice.
>
> I am thankful that my skills are not suffient to even attempt the building
> of a shopping cart!
>
> I am using Typepad as my blogging service.  I am not sure what server or
> access to server side scripting they offer.  My plan is to simply use what
> they call "advanced template set" and insert some fairly basic html, with
> access to a PayPal shopping cart.  That way all the secure work on
> transactions are not handled by me, for a nominal percentage of the sales.
>
> Being somewhat of a perfectionist, I just despise the idea of anything
> hard-coded into my web page's html.  That was where I thought xml might be
> my solution given the limitations of the blog service I have.  Minus of
> course my concerns.
>
> Just in case I am able to use php or some other server side scripting (I
> have never used that btw), is there a good resource where I can learn the
> basics?  Web site, book, etc.?
>
> Thanks again.
>




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