WoogieNoogie\'s VERY COMPLETE PHP and MySQL Blog Tutorial

This tutorial will teach you how to create your own blog tool through HTML, PHP, MySQL, and HTACCESS. This blog includes comments and an admin panel. This tutorial is very bare-bones...easily customisable through CSS and HTML. This tutorial is meant to give you code, not design.



This coding is very secure, it goes through PHP and HTACCESS to guarantee nobody will be able to hack your blog without knowing the password.



The way this tutorial works, I give a line by line explanation of what the page does, then I display the code in the same format--line by line.



DISCLAIMERS!!!

I use HTML 4.01 Transitional coding. My tags are capatalized, and some tags may not work with XHTML.



Also, I use coding that works with the Firefox web browser. Some coding may not work with Internet Explorer, or other browsers. But mostly Internet Explorer...because it sucks.



PART 2:What will I need?

You will need the following for this tutorial to work:

Support for PHP

Support for .htaccess and .htpasswd

One MySQL database

Basic knowledge of PHP



You won't need alot of space. This is mostly handled in the MySQL database, with the PHP files just spitting it out.