PHP and databases

Tuesday's lecture was really helpful to me since I'm planning of having quite a bit of changing content on my site- which makes use of databases- which makes use of php. It was great to understand how it fits into the bigger picture. I've spent quite a bit of time this week looking into registration pages, blogging and forums to see how I can possibly integrate them into my site. I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to use it (from a course point of view), but I've managed to get wordpress up and running on my server, and phpBB- for blogging and forums. Even if it doesn't get used in the end, it was great to have the practice creating a database on the server, uploading the files, editing the php files to link to the databases I've created, and look at how I can create my own templates to integrate with the blogging/ forum technologies. It's obviously really important that I have a lot of control over the way it looks and its functionality- so I've been playing with that. I've also been trawling through the web and studying php codes that allow a user to register for a site, then log-in. I haven't quite got up to using it yet, but I feel I have a pretty good understanding of how it works. It's been a productive week for me!
The beginnings of a forum on my site:
http://www.tracyr.comlu.com/phpBB3/
The beginnings of a blog on my site:
http://www.tracyr.comlu.com/wordpress/
References:
http://wordpress.com
http://www.phpbb.com/
http://forum.codecall.net/php-tutorials/2014-simple-register-login-logoff-system.html
http://www.olate.co.uk/articles/185
http://www.swish-db.com/tutorials/view.php/tid/601