Hello, I am building a php listings application with php and mysql. They told me that I wont have direct table access but only a view access. Does anyone know what this means in terms of me querying the database? I have never worked directly with mysql views in php.

can you select a view like a table?

It means nothing to change to you.

A view is an consolidated aggregation of multiples datas as 1 table.
You do select/update/insert on the view (if you have the rights to, of course) like you would on a single table.

You could have a view created from an "user" table, and from an "messages" table, that could create a view with every messages of every users.