Thanks in part to all the help I received on this forum I'm up and running with my web adventure developed in Windows XP. I've had this fear creeping in with "what would I do if I had to restore the entire database"?
I've got phpAdmin loaded upon my server and can access it except I get this error message:
" The mbstring PHP extension was not found and you seem to be using a multibyte charset. Without the mbstring extension phpMyAdmin is unable to split strings correctly and it may result in unexpected results. Your PHP MySQL library version 4.1.22 differs from your MySQL server version 5.0.45. This may cause unpredictable behavior. "
As I use a Windows XP machine I expect I'll be extracting this tar.gz file somewhere and then running some type of routine to restore the database. In Windows I use MySQL Administrator if I have to backup or restore a database.
Can anyone explain the 'big picture' to me or point me where I can learn this? Thank you, Kathleen