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creating a database for a website
danny_galaga:
What are the chances of me succeeding? Basically I want to make a database of some magazines I have, so some of the (variables I suppose they're called) include date of publication, issue number, article subjects, manufacturers etc. My site is hosted on godaddy and I've gone there to set something up, but they dont really give you a clue as to what to do. Fair enough. Do I need extra software to do this? I'm using a Mac by the way.
If it's all too hard I'll just list everything as plain text and advise people to hit CTRL/COMMAND-F ;D
newmanfamilyvlogs:
Does it explicitly need to be a database? Would a Google Doc Spreadsheet work?
What do you want to do with it?
Databases for webpages will be hosted on whatever server hosts your webpage, and then accessed with some kind of scripting language running on the server as well. The most common is probably MySql/PHP. GoDaddy probably gives you access to PHPMyAdmin, which is a webbased database access program for MySQL.
jrivelli:
Hey that would actually be fairly easy to do with Drupal. You can get Drupal at Drupal.org and actually Godaddy has a 1 click install for Drupal. Wordpress can accomplish this as well, but Drupal is way more simple and will do exactly what you want to do. You can get the 'views' module to then display the module. Use the CCK module to create a form to enter the info. I deal with Drupal all day so heck....if you want I can quickly install it, create the form for your info and make a simple views display to show it if you want. Should only take me an hour or so.
lordnacho:
Try Google Books. There's a My Library section, think it works for publications as well.
You can have a webpage view of your library or export to xml.
I barcode scanned a bunch of books for a donation drive at work, imported them into Google Books. Made the list public and sent it around the company.
stu33:
I'll second Drupal. Very configurable, and you can have a great site going in little time without ever seeing a drop of code.
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