[rob2132]

Why is that the same forum? How about separate forums? PHP is no more relevant to MySQL than MySQL is to PHP--or to be more clear, it's no more relevant for PHP to MySQL than Perl is to CGI. Many languages use MySQL and have nothing to do with PHP. I realize many people think that they go 'hand in hand', but it's no more 'hand in hand' than Perl and MySQL or C and MySQL or Python and MySQL. These forums should be separate. I mean, this isn't specific to MySQL questions related to PHP somehow, is it? :-)

Too many people already seem to think that the two must be used with each other and this only makes it worse and makes more people needlessly make database connections and causing unneeded overhead and DB usage. MySQL questions will surely still be fielded fine in a PHP forum, but it seems odd to have "PHP and MySQL" as the name of the forum, since one doesn't have anything to do with the other anymore than any other language and MySQL.

Even if PHP makes it easier to use with it, so do other languages such as Perl, etc. and it would seem odd to tack on "and MySQL" to each of those forums. This is like saying Perl/CGI as a forum title (Perl is used for many other things, and CGI can be used for any language, so that would be wrong). I ask you consider removing "and MySQL" from the PHP forum and having a separate area for "Databases" that can have database scheme/design questions and different types (among them being MySQL). :-)

[Ryan]

MySQL is most commonly associated with PHP, which is why I grouped them together. You are correct in saying that MySQL is used with other languages and not just with PHP. At the bottom of the advertising forums there is a link to DBForums.com, which is owned by iNET Interactive, along with ProgrammingTalk.com and WebHostingTalk.com. If you need detailed help with databases then that is the place to go. I hope this makes more sense.

[rob2132]

Originally Posted by Ryan

MySQL is most commonly associated with PHP, which is why I grouped them together. You are correct in saying that MySQL is used with other languages and not just with PHP. At the bottom of the advertising forums there is a link to DBForums.com, which is owned by iNET Interactive, along with ProgrammingTalk.com and WebHostingTalk.com. If you need detailed help with databases then that is the place to go. I hope this makes more sense.

To be clear, I actually wasn't looking for help, and had only just made a suggestion based on the forums (and here's why). I've never been to the DBForums.com site personally and that's a great alternative for people that need help. Though, I think it's confusing with all the forums linked to each other--but that may just be how I see it. Do you guys expect to leave things so separate on links to different sites, or do you plan to have programmingtalk.com encompass all the relevant issues to programming on one forum? I personally don't like the idea of going to another site and registering there and dealing with all of that stuff.

Of course, I rarely come to these places to ask for or seek help and mainly just come to offer assistance (which you can see by a search on my name here--like you care lol), so I suppose it's of no consequence--I was just hopeful to find a forum that offered everything related to programming that would be centralized on one site/forum that perhaps I could make a new home in and offer help to people on different subjects--not to mention to get involved in any interesting topics, etc. and not need to go to different sites (not to mention webhostingtalk is way too generalized and there's barely anything technical discussed there). Oh well, thanks though!

[pher]

For a limited knowledge people with programming skills like me, I agree with Ryan. I want all related issues be on the same site because my time is very value and don't have much time to go search with many other sites. I would like to see how one technology related to other or how it interact with other technology. I'm here in programmingtalk because I need assistance to be address in here. Currently, I'm just about to study MySQL and how it interacts or works with PHP.

[UnrealEd]

Closing this topic....

This topic is 5 years old, and is completely irrelevant as we split the PHP & MySQL forum into a PHP forum and Database forum