Ok I want to make a article manager thing. I am no expert at PHP and its seems mindblowing. I dont want anything Fancy, something simple. I came up with this:

Script that Registers users before they can submit an article
Script that Send article, once varified Username/Pass, to a control panel.
Script/Control Panel, that can delete, edit or approve the submittion.

Now thats sounds realtively simple. But its things like; making sure the Username is Alpha Numeric only, A Valid email. And what if the Material they submitted was from a Copyrighted source.

It seems like a lot of trouble. I was thinking of going to a simpliar thing, where it would email the submittion instead of a DB and then I would manually enter it into a DB, But then I get into things like people wanting the same Username/Author being attached to their article.

This is mind numbing, please give me some suggestions on what I could do.