I have a irc bot that can access and create a mysql database and then store data in this database.

I am wanting to create a web page possibly using xhtml to visually display different aspects of this database for people to view.

Where would a good starting point be? I get lost in the flood of things, and, any direction will help me greatly.

You need a scripting language or a programming language for this to connect to the database and create the html output. You can do this with PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, C++ to mention the most used. If you decide to take one of the first 4 options you can use an apache webserver with the corresponding module activated. For a Java based solution you need an application container like tomcat.

If you ask 4 programmers which is the best choice you will get at least 5 different answers. I'm a PHP programmer so I recommend PHP.

If you just need an editable view of the tables you may simply install phpMyAdmin and connect it to that database. It will show all tables and provide you with corrsponding user authentication and such... But you cannot easily change the design.

So if you have come to further decisions let us know.

Cheers, j

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