Need help with creating my new website!

Hi everyone! Okay so I'll just cut to the chase,

I have a great website idea. I need help and I'm not sure if this requires strictly HTML coding or maybe PHP. I really would appreciate any help or opinions I can get! Ok so here is what I want:

I want my website coded so that people can post up information on my website. What I mean is like, I want a sort of guestbook where people can fill a small form and post quick information and on the front page a list of all posts will show where the top post would be the most recent. For example those websites like failblog and MLIA ( I promise I am NOT making another "failblog" type of website lol).

In addition to this I want to have a search capability! So if someone searches the word "apple", I would like every post that contained the word "apple" to show up!

Does anyone know how about I could achieve this? In more general terms I want to create a user-made database lol.

Any help is much appreciated!

and to search create another form (maybe set the action parameter to another page) and the php code will be like



that's a basic search. the query returns anything which matches the search word(or phrase). all you have to do is loop through it and display it.

I learnt PHP through university... There's php.net although that's only really useful as a reference... Other than the obvious W3Schools I'm not sure what to suggest, just search around on Google, look at other peoples code and figure out how it works or ask for help I guess, I'll be willing to lend a hand with anything you need if you need help

You won't be able to do it without some form of server side coding, whether that be PHP or something else like ASP. You need to be able to save data to the server and that isn't possible with just client side scripting (JavaScript).

I would recommened phpeasystep to get a lot of base functions, like the one shown above. It gives little explanations of each line and what not.

How will i start to create a new page?