I’ve started playing around with PHP and MySQL. I didn’t have MySQL installed initially, so I installed it (along with PostgreSQL, which I’ll try later on). Then I found that I hadn’t installed the php-mysql RPM, so I did that. I typed in a very simple guestbook application from the book I’m reading and it actually worked. Very cool. I’m rather tempted to convert this whole site over to MySQL. I’ll have to learn more about it first, to make sure it’ll do what I want it to do. My only problem with putting the site in a database is that I like to edit it on my laptop while I’m disconnected, and I’m not sure if I can still change my content locally and upload it somehow. Considering that almost everyone’s using database-driven websites nowadays, it must not be much of a problem.