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Hi gang...

My name is Mark and I've run a website that's been up and running for nearly 3 years that's dedicated to Domestic Performance Cars.

On the site, I run UBBThreads v6.2.3 message board. Oh, let me back up here a bit as well....even though I've been running my site in operation for nearly 3 years....I have never done coding before. Only simple html programming.

I've got 4 books that I picked up at the bookstore to help in my learning curve:
  • PHP & MySQL For Dummies ISBN 0-7645-1650-7
  • PHP by Visual (Read Less, Learn More) ISBN 0-7645-3561-7
  • PHP and MySQL Web Development ISBN 0-672-32525-X
  • MySQL Bible ISBN 0-7645-4932-4


Hard part of having these books on tap is that I've never been one to read. So, I got a lot to catch up on....however, I thought that I would post up here on this message forum seeing how there is some good knowledge that gets passed through here.

One of my goals in learning MySQL and PHP is to develop some pages where the user of our Message Board can go into a seperate page outside of the message board and type information about him/herself in regards to their car or cars.

I wonder if I could use my existing MySQL database that has already been created using UBBThreads and just add tables to it without screwing up the message board that it runs from?

It just seems that it would be so much easier to use the existing database that was created and add onto it so that my members who have already registered on my message board can just go into this database and add on information about themselves without starting all over again.

Just looking for your thoughts on this....

I have a Windows 2000 Server at my house that I've already installed IIS on and MySQL. I learned atleast that much in these books.....

Thank you for reading and any input that you may be able to provide.

Mark

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You can safely add additional tables to the ubb.threads database. You might want to add a different prefix so that you can easily distinguish them.

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Astaran, thanks for the quick response....

It would be great to use the existing data along with the password that the user provided during his/her registration to the message board.

I know all too well...before messing with the database....back it up!

Thank you again...


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