PHP/MySql, user registration, auto web page from forms

[boballoo]

Hello,

I have my web site up and running

http://www.editfast.com

designed using DW 4 but I am upgrading to DW MX soon because I would like to add on a "User Registration Area" using PHP/MySql which I understand are better supported in DW MX.

This "User Reg" area will contain a series of forms. Depending on the information entered into the previous form the user will be taken to the next appropriate form to continue till they have finished the process. The information they have entered in the forms will be used to automatically create their own web page on my site. When they have finished entering all their info they will be taken to their Automatically created web page and allowed to change or update the information.

I think this is a big project and I have no experience with PHP except for some automatically installed scripts on my site and I once installed PHP on a server but never really got into the configuration much. If anyone knows:

1) Where do I begin?
2) Good sources of info for the beginner on how to easily do this project.
3) Links to help sites or any info you might think I will need.

Thanks for your help!

Robert Kidd
director@editfast.com

 

[freelancernetwork]

If your new at PHP / MySQL etc you should take a look at

http://www.sourceforge.net,

it's the open source project site where you will find all project information, downloads etc for most programming languages, PHP included.

If you want to play around with PHP and can't get the configuration setup, search for PHPTriad at sourceforge, it's an all-in-one installer, for Apache, MySQl and PHP, which should install itself relatively easy, from there keep an eye on the httpd.conf file in the Apache /conf directory it will give you an idea of how the set up file should look like.

At sourceforge you can also download PHP message boards etc which are relatively simple to set up.

I'm not too sure whether Dreamweaver MX etc really can handle PHP, better to initally design the site in MX and then use a basic editor. Most forums you download have a very fixed look and feel generated completely in PHP so Dreamweaver will only see it as a PHP tag.

 

[hads]

Don't forget the PHP and MySql forums on tek-tips
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[jacktripper]

PHP Builder is an excellent resource.

http://www.phpbuilder.com