On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:22:31 -0700, Michael Havens wrote: > > am I correct in assuming that you need Apache to be running to work with > MySQL? > No. MySQL is completely independent. There is a very large and still fast growing field of development, LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. http://www.onlamp.com/ The tools work very well together, and will for a very long time since development of all these is geared toward working together AND working with as many other protocols as possible. For instance, I worked on a project that included a DB2 database, which PHP could interface through an ODBC driver provided by IBM. So it was a part LAMP and part LA[db2]P website. Since this is Linux goodness, you can also write cron jobs that run php on the command line, e-mail users, automatically submit e-mails into a MySQL table, whatever. I also highly recommend http://safari.oreilly.com/ . --Alexander --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss