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I believe you just answered my question. I just started learning PHP, but everything I\'ve read keeps telling me I need to install MySQL and talks more about MySQL than anything else. But until I learn more about PHP I couldn\'t understand what I really need it for. I installed it, but the thing is now I\'m back and forth between learning PHP and MySQL and it\'s confusing me. So I wondered what I really needed it for. But I guess what I really wanted to know, was if it would be possible for me to get by without it until I learn enough about PHP first .... then start to learn about the MySQL. That\'s why I never learned anything but HTML, because most programming languages I\'ve tried to learn, jump from one thing to another before you can get a good grasp on it. If you understand what I\'m talking about. But thank you for the reply. It really helped a lot.

Well I have PHP 4.3.4.4 installed and MySQL (I got the version 4.1.1-alpha), SQLyog 3.64, MySQL Control Center 0.9.4-beta, MyODBC 3.51.06 and PHPed 3.2.1.3239 ... First of all, do I really need all this? I\'ve been reading and reading and reading and still just as stuck now as I was a couple days ago. The main thing is all the tuts refer to MySQL and I\'ve got it configured with my IIS 5.0 and I can bring up the \"test pages\" I\'ve made, but since I have IIS and PHPed and can write and bring the pages up, what do I need MySQL for? Everything I\'ve read so far just talks about what it\'s for, like creating databases ... but what would I need it for? I don\'t have anything to put in a database ... I mean if I\'m just learning PHP, I can\'t figure out what I need it for ... Long question summed up in one sentence :roll: : All I wanted to do was learn PHP and use PHP ... what do I need MySQL for? *sigh* I need some aspirin now