Hello I am Shane, I am new to these boards... Nice to meet all of you.
Anyways, I have had 4 programming courses and am familiar with
PHP, C++, Java, VB
, HTML.
I prefer Java as my main language, and PHP for web apps.
And on to the question... I have worked with databases in PHP (MySQL), and it is incredibly handy. Using them in website situations made me think of how it would have been handy on some of my past client apps. However, they're not always going to be installed like on a web server. And then of course, why not just use comma dilleniated(spelling?) files etc?
What are the bennefits of using databases, and what are the difficulties? Do you have to install a database applications for java to integrate with or can you just create a database file?
Shane
