Re: [PHP] Where to start!

[email protected] (Robert Cummings)
Newsgroups php.general
Organization InterJinn
Message-ID <1209976150.7046.60.camel@blobule>
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 01:15 -0600, Jorge wrote:
> First I would like to say that I have had PHP experience but not enough to 
> say I am a PHP developer.
> 
> I want to use PHP to build a site that uses MySQL,  I am building it from 
> scratch so I don't know where to start, should I start with PHP and design a 
> database around my code, or should I designs the db and design the site are 
> the db.
> 
> is it just a matter of preference or is there a recommended way to do this?

Database first. You can tailor it when you write your code if you've
missed stuff, but in a "from-scratch-project" it should be 90%
determined before you write the code.

Cheers,
Rob.
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