Ok I'll be making a databse driven website like a movie database... PHP MySQL you'll say. Of course but I can just make a simple joke database using those two... I want to make a website that will have 2 categories from which the user will choose from a drop down list and then the results will be displayed on a page as links (ex: Category:West London/Category 2:Fast Foods/Results). Every result/data entry will have an image a title and a description. The data entries will be placed only by the admin using password and username (but that I assume can be achieved by .htaccess trick) which will redirect him to an admin menu (ex: Delete/modify/enter new entries). Also how this thing will work if I upload it on the server??? Should I contact my ISP to modify my server so that PHP and SQL are enabled? Sorry if I make you laugh with those questions but I'm frustrated, drunk and out of ideas! H! E! L! P!
Well I could get reference from a site and build it step by step but that would be time consuming since I've never done this before... If someone could do it or simply give me an example would be superb! Also wanted to know when I'm done with the site what should I do? Simply upload php and the database to my server or what?
Why don't you use a CMS - like Joomla or something like that? Check out here: http://www.siteground.com/best_cms_tools.htm I could code this for you (but I'm quite expensive) and then I just imagine the PITA to maintain this...
cms I'll dig into it and see what happens! Thax for the tip! Why doesn't my website display php pages?
You need to ask your ISP - a web server (like Apache) needs to be configured to correctly run PHP scripts, otherwise they'll show them as plain text