News & Updates

This section contains information on the latest news and updates to the MySQL Documentation home page.

Work is currently under way on updated documentation for MySQL 3.21 that will include the commands, C API and possibly a PHP tutorial/manual as well.

We've also started to look at doing documentation for 3.22, but thats likely a month or two away.

Mike Miller


News

07/18/1998

DBD/DBI Documentation Updated

Jay just turned in a new version of the MySQL Perl DBD/DBI documentation. This version includes an extensive example based on my PHP/MySQL article from the January 1998 issue of Web Techniques magazine.

Click here for the latest and greatest.

07/17/1998

Commands Documentation Updated

I've just finished a first draft of the commands documentation for MySQL 3.21.X. Click here to check it out.

-Mike

07/14/1998

Links Added to Menu

Added links the T.c.X's documentation to the menu bar. This makes it easy to get to all available documentation from one place.

07/07/1998

New Perl DBD/DBI Documentation

Jay Flaherty has just turned in a new version of the MySQL Perl DBD/DBI documentation. Click here to take a look.

Note that this is a work in progress, but it still contains a lot of good information.

07/03/1998

Contact Example updated to work with PHP 3.0

Rick Seibel and I (Mike Miller) have ported the PHP source code from my January 1998 Web Techniques article to work with PHP version 3. This example should provide a good introduction on connecting to a MySQL database from PHP. Click here to get the source code and schema.

07/02/1998

MySQL 3.21.X C API

Eric Huss just delivered an early draft of updated C API documentation for MySQL 3.21.X. You can find it on the menu to the left, or click here.

07/01/1998

Added Links for Perl DBD/DBI article.

I've added links on the MySQL Articles page that point to the source code and text files needed to recreate the sample application mentioned in my April 1998 Web Techniques Perl DBD/DBI article.

06/30/1998

Updated stats software

The site is now using wusage 6.0. I also got rid of a bunch of older stats data.

06/30/1998

New 3.21.X SQL Documentation

I've put an updated version of the 3.21.X SQL manual up. There is some added content and a few corrections. You can get to it by way of the menu at the left side of the screen, or by clicking here..

06/28/1998

Major site update

I'm in the process of completely redoing the web site for the project. The new design should be significantly easier to navigate and understand. Please send any comments or suggestions in regards to this to me (mke@netcom.com)

  • You can get to the old index page by clicking here. Note that there will be no updates made on the old page.