Wasn't it Fred Brooks that wrote in the Mythical
Man month: give me
your
data structures, and I won't need your algorithms;
give me your
algorithms, and they will mean nothing without your data structures?
Brooks was good for his time, but Steve McConnell's "Rapid Development"
is my software bible. You can find excerpts at
www.construx.com
The interaction as I see it is a PHP module in the
Apache web server
runs some custom PHP code that connects to a MySQL database, runs
queries, and uses the results to construct the appropriate pages.
This is the part I know. I need more detail.
Ed Poor