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@NogDogJan 20.2006 — #If you've already selected your web hosting company, then question number one is: what scripting/programming and database options do they support?
The PHP/MySQL option certainly can so what you're asking, as can several other combinations. PHP and MySQL have the benefit of being open source. So what you might want to do is download and install[url=http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html]XAMPP[/url] so you can start experimenting with it locally on your PC.
If you have no programming experience (sorry, HTML is text mark-up, not programming), I'd strongly recommend taking an introductory course or two. It does not have to be in PHP (though of course that would be nice), but something that would teach you the things common to most programming languages: if/else logic, loop constructs, arrays, etc. An introduction to databases and SQL would be very useful, too.
If you're strictly a do-it-yourselfer, browse the book selections at OReilly.com, and dive into thewww.php.net web site.@NogDogJan 20.2006 — #Very basic, general PHP tutorial: http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php
Accessing form data via PHP:http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php
PHP interacttion with MySQL:http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php
Is PHP What I Want?
Ok. You’ll need to forgive me because I’ve taught myself everything I know, so in other words, I probably don’t know much. I am extremely familiar with HTML coding and I’m just beginning to dive into PHP.
I will explain to you what I want to do and I need SOMEONE to tell me where to go to figure out how to do what I want to do.
I design a website for a golf course. The golf course has many company outings. I want to make a subdomain for each company outing that the company can use as a place to sign up golfers for their tournaments. On the companyouting.golfcourse.com subdomain site, I want to have a form (this is where I think the PHP comes in) that golfers can fill out concerning information about the golfing experience and then be able to pay for their outing, too. Creating the form is easy, so I don’t need help with that, but what I do need help with is that I want the person who is charge of the company’s outing to be able to login to a separate screen that will have a database of all the information that form is gathering. It is THAT problem that I just can’t figure out how to do. I know how to do all kinds of cool things with PHP and forms, but I can’t figure out how to use the MySQL correctly, so that I can keep track of all the different outings, but they won’t be able to see one another’s information.
Any ideas? I hope I explained this well enough to make sense to you! I’d really appreciate any help you can offer!
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@NogDogJan 20.2006 — #If you've already selected your web hosting company, then question number one is: what scripting/programming and database options do they support?The PHP/MySQL option certainly can so what you're asking, as can several other combinations. PHP and MySQL have the benefit of being open source. So what you might want to do is download and install
If you have no programming experience (sorry, HTML is text mark-up, not programming), I'd strongly recommend taking an introductory course or two. It does not have to be in PHP (though of course that would be nice), but something that would teach you the things common to most programming languages: if/else logic, loop constructs, arrays, etc. An introduction to databases and SQL would be very useful, too.
If you're strictly a do-it-yourselfer, browse the book selections at OReilly.com, and dive into the
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@NogDogJan 20.2006 — #Very basic, general PHP tutorial: Accessing form data via PHP:
PHP interacttion with MySQL: