Hi... I am new to this community... I am new to PHP... I was doing some basic websites with HTML,CSS,Javascript. I have to do a course registration web form for my department. I need help from you guys....

My question :

I host the website from my Univesity web server. I use filezilla and do updates for the website.... If I use a DB for the form which I am planning to design, Should I install the DB server on the web server?

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yes of course, you need a db engine, MySQL recommended

Hi... Thanks for ur reply...

1. Should I install the DB engine on the web server?

2. I have many MySql downloads on the official site. Can you send me link for the exact DB engine to download?

3. I am using WINDOWS (W7). Is it fine or should i shift to Linux?

I am using linux with XAMPP and everything comes integrated (apache/mysql/php)
There's a version for windows too

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