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I'm pretty new at this but I've been reading up on it this week. Basically I have a large database from a CMS I used to have. I don't want to use the CMS any more, but the MySQL file is full of lots of information that would take me many, many months to re-enter.
I haven't deleted the database, I can view it all in phpmyadmin and I know how to set up a new database and then copy all of that info over to the new domain/server I am setting up. So I guess you can say the database is done and I just need to display it now. What I can't work out is how I'm going to display the database information - so it is visible on the page. It seems I still need some sort of CMS or a different type of interface to handle the info. The problem is, since the database was written for a different CMS, I would probably have to convert it if I used one of the bigger content management systems, right?
I have an extremely basic need for the database info. I just want display it as a list. I've created pages for each title in the database, now I want to create a page that lists them that I can use to link to those pages. I had previously tried setting a plain HTML list up over numerous pages and adding new titles manually, but with no way to automatically alphabetize the list it was very time consuming to reorganize.(since the list is only 20 per page)
A little about the database:
I have a few thousand titles and I'm always adding more so primarily I just wanted to display these titles split over numerous pages, displayed alphabetically and by category. My previous CMS handled that, so I am guessing I need an alternative that can do something similar. I assume that's a pretty basic function, and doesn't really need the full power of most advanced programs.
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