I'm trying to change the source of a table in a Joomla 1.5.9 page from hardcoded html in the page to getting the information from a SQL database. What is the proper way to do this? Create a new model or component and somehow use that in the page?
I found these: http://docs.joomla.org/Tutorial:How_to_use_the_database_classes_in_your_script http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_use_the_database_classes_in_your_script
But I'm not sure where to write the php code and how to access it in the page. If somebody could point me to a basic tutorial for custom php or whatever it's called, I'm new to webb development, I'd be happy.