Title said, sorry if I sound like a noob. A question: I have a database (mySQL) and need to program the HTML/PHP side where site viewers would be able to view the content of the database. How do I get to program the search feature for my page to extract database information for viewer's pleasure. For example, 3 comboboxes (1 of them would be depending on the if status from the other 2) and a check box. So may I have the instructions on how to get it started? Sorry if I sounds like a noob, yet I do possess HTML/XHTML/CSS/JS/PHP/SQL skillz. Thank you!
Well you sound like a "noob" because you are in fact one. You possessed such PHP and SQL skills as you suggest this question wouldn't of been asked. It's actually quite impossible to answer your question since it makes no sense.
Hey it's good you have that list of skills, you're going to need them all. Your select controls will have to be ajax powered, which is going to use your html/xhtml and Javascript skills, as well as PHP on the server. When a selection is made in the first box, the second box has to use ajax to populate itself with results relevant for the first selection. Then you have to do it again with the third box, when a selection is made in the second box. Once those selections are made and the user submits the form you have to use the submitted data as query parameters and then display the requested data. Not to give you any attitude, but this is basic PHP/MySQL programming. Whatever about being a noob; no one will take time to explain this here. I strongly recommend you visit tizag.com or w3schools.com (I am not associated with either) and follow their simple tutorials to begin doing this sort of programming.