Making my website with code

[wwwfilmfilercom]

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

--- 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?