I am pretty new at this stuff, but have created a database in mySQL with multiple linking tables. I am trying to learn how to create forms on a website, in which the data will be sent from the forms to a database. I am hoping to find a webhost that provides: - free domain (even if it's an extension) - web editor - script, php abilities - free database Even if there are no completely free sites out there, if there is a site that provides those capabilities in a free trial, I would be interested in checking it out. I am just trying to learn scripting and tying it all together with a temporary database. Hoping I'm heading in the right direction..
Why not look to host it locally on your own machine? Granted you don't get the domain but is that a requirement as such for practice? Something like this: http://www.wampserver.com/en/
I'm trying to create a database that can be queried from any computer, by any user in the group. They should have the ability to add a new entry, modify or delete and existing entry, or search by keyword within entries I don't think we want to database to reside in any one person's computer. An online server would satisfy that, no?
failing that - dyndns, port forwarding and a LAMP stack on a Virtual box. Job's a good'n. This is my prototyping environment and it's worked great.
you could also use AWS for a year on the free tier and build your own lamp stack on a micro instance, though, it depends on whether or not you would feel comfortable throwing together a lamp stack on a linux box. you wouldn't get a domain - but all instances do have a public hostname, so you wouldn't really need one. I can't remember if you can get an RDS (relational database service) instance on the free tier as well - but you might be able to. If not you could just stick mysql on the ec2 micro instance. It would be worth doing the above anyone just for fun, I like messing about on AWS. edit: yes you can http://aws.amazon.com/rds/free/ so you can get a free EC2 micro instance for a year with a free RDS instance, which would be quite a nice little test environment. (for a year) - what I would say though, remember to stop everything at the end of the year if you don't want to pay!
