I wouldn't even imagine of recomending that you use MySQL. While it seems like you're in zero danger of hitting MySQL's ceiling, there's a lot of us that have found it worthwhile to not even bother and have been using the featureful PostgreSQL instead. It probably won't matter to you for at least another year, however.

Each of the databases MySQL and PostgreSQL can contain multiple tables and are normally expected to. So you could have a list of users, a list of currently authenticated sessions, a list of data on your web sites, etc. When you said "database" you really meant "table." You can have lots of tables in each database. Of course, to interact with a database you'll need to have learned some of the SQL language. Since you're doing this over a CGI web connection, you'll also need to learn about CGI. All in all, you're learning at least three languages simultaneously here. I once found the book Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz to be very helpful along with CGI Programming with Perl. Both are available from http://www.oreilly.com for not a lot of dollars.

In reply to Re: delete user from database by diotalevi
in thread delete user from database by titanic_fanataic

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