and thank you in advance for reading this noob message. This is seriously just a long-term quest for investing my time in something useful, since I'm a bone-marrow-transplant patient (I have/had leukemia) and can't do much outdoors. I'm pretty much confined to my house and my business locale.
So, the story goes like this:
Before being diagnosed I started a small craft-beer business, and I also have a background in IT since I worked for 5 years in the information security department at a big multinational corporation (US-based) I don't want to give any further details about.
I have basic understanding (and sometimes a bit above "basic") of some things such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Databases, how does a server work, what is an OS, which architectures are certain pieces of software built in and so on...
So, I have this simple open-source POS system for running my shop, and it uses a MySQL database. I also have been keeping an online catalogue which is just a Google Sheets doc that I MANUALLY modify every single day with the transactions we have every 8-hour working day. This is useful to me since people over social media always ask for a catalogue they can check before visiting us.
It occurred to me that I could invest my time in something less monotone and mechanic than manually subtracting product in a spreadsheet, and maybe I could gain some skills myself.
My questions are:
What do I need to look for /learn in order to make a database-driven online catalogue out of my already existing MySQL DB?
I know that I have to host this DB in some service so my web-catalogue and my in-site machine can both take the info from it. What I need to know is how to make both, the local POS system and the web catalogue feed from the same DB.
I don’t want to create online purchases from a site (e-commerce), I just need a way to exhibit the product details of the beers with a picture of them, but I do need the catalogue to show when we are out of stock in any of our products, therefore I need both to feed from the same DB.
And of course, I would like to learn how to create a front end for this DB, which would be my catalogue. I know HTML5, CSS3 and a bit of JavaScript already, but I don’t know how to link the DB to any sort of front end, so any advice on what should I learn first and second (and last) would be greatly appreciated.
Well, if anyone makes it to the end of this message, please know that I totally understand if you do not reply, after all, everyone else here knows what the hell they are doing, and I am pretty aware of what time is worth. So, thank you for having read every single bit of my message.