Making my website with code

Apologies if this is in the wrong thread;

I'm making a website and I just need some advice on the best way to go about building it. I'm hoping some of you can help;

The website will be for a small group of writers who want to list information about themselves available for others to see.

I'm thinking of putting their details into an SQL table.

Then I'm going to use PHP to create a search function and also to display the results from the table.

And then there is the usual HTML, CSS to edit the layouts into a website.


The bit I'm most confused by is the search bit, which is important. I have all the info in my SQL table and I just want to display it so I think I can use PHP but are there better alternatives?

Maybe there is already something on the net which can offer me this for free?

Please help as I'm not sure if I'm going the right way about things.

Thanks :thumb:

--- sorry I almost forgot that I would like to include some kind of user account area where a writer can add/update his or her own details. I'm mostly sure this would use PHP, am I right?

Yes, you can use PHP, JSP, ASP or any other server side language. Which database are you using? Most will support a full text search which is what you need for searching data.

If you're going to pick PHP, then you might as well go for MySql, since most hosts that offer PHP also offer MySql as the back end solution. It'll server your purpose well and is cheaper than SQL Server hosting.

Assuming that you'll be storing your textual data in the database, a few simple SQL statements is all you need to perform your searches.

Thanks guys, I was planning on using PHP with MySQl but just wanted to make sure that this was the right way to go.

I've heard of things such as XOOP or PHPNuke and was wondering whether there's something similar to what I want that is already available???

Yea, there are content management systems available, but I am not sure of their search capabilities. And personally I think PHP-Nuke is atrocious.

Creating your own custom solution would not be hard at all and it would ensure it is tailored to your needs.

PHPNuke might help in this case. It's open source, and you can modify it if you need to. Download it and install it on your server, see whether it's what you had envisaged. If it isn't, make it yourself.

Have you seen the code?

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Thanks again for the advice really helpful, I honestly think I'd rather make everything myself considering no one has recommended any standout application which - I take it there isn't one..

Cheers + COMONENGLAND!!!!

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Originally Posted by penagate

Have you seen the code?

:sick:

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Yes, I have seen its c0d... why? :confused: