Knowing PHP to use MySQL

[bostonfrog]

I took an introductory course in ASP at Boston University, which mostly involved using combinations of HTML and ASP-specific tags on an IIS Server that compiles ASP code. A MySQL course is being offered online by the HTML Guild. Do you need to have a thorough understanding of PHP in order to use MySQL as a web-based database? Any advice or links would be much appreciated.
-- Michel

 

[sleipnir214]

No. You can use a MySQL backend with any number of programming languages in the frontend, including ASP/VBscript, Java, VB, C++, c, PHP, Python and perl.

You generally hear about PHP in conjunction with MySQL because PHP's support for MySQL is very good. PHP is among those languages that can use MySQL-native communications libraries, and usually comes bundled with those libraries. Python, perl, C++, and c can also use the native libraries. Other languages, like ASP/VBScript, must use something like ODBC to communicate with MySQL, which can hinder your getting the absolute best performance out of MySQL.


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