Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:55:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need advice on PHP and MySQL books Message-ID: <20030111144619.X22424@2-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> In-Reply-To: <3E1FF12B.5390D978@mindspring.com> References: <20030110234309.R12065@2-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> <3E1FF12B.5390D978@mindspring.com>
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
> I liked:
>
> Core PHP Programming
> and:
> PHP Essentials
>
> well enough to buy both of them.
Thanks, I'll give those a look. I was focussing on O'Reilly stuff since
that's what's on sale right now.
> > My ultimate goal is to produce a web-based DNS Management tool with an SQL
> > back end.
>
> You are probably not going to be happy with this, unless you take
> the data in the MySQL database, and post-process it, to get the DNS
> configuration files.
>
> Specifically, MySQL is a relational database, and DNS is actually
> a hierarchical database; the mapping works much better from LDAP
> to DNS (for example), than from MySQL to DNS.
Well, "DNS Management Tool" is a little bit oversimplified. I'm actually
not looking to drive the name server from the database, I'm actually
looking to store information about hosts in a relational db, then spit out
a number of different types of files (DNS zone files, dhcpd.conf files,
etc.) based on what's stored there. Eventually, I also want to be able to
run bind 9 plugged directly into the database (or a similar database)
without zone files at all.
> If this is for internal use, you can ignore the GPL, since it only
> really applies if you distribute the code.
Yeah, this is just for internal use. Does postgres have a friendlier
license? That might actually be a point in its favor, since the initial
version of this project won't have to be super high performance. I might
want to make money off this some day. :)
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