Re: Complete Newbie looking for direction

[Peter Brawley]

You'll need to study up on relational databases, then on MySQL starting with downloading & installing it, then working through the tutorial chapters at the front of the manual. Then study up on database design.

And you'll need to choose a tool that connects a database to a website. If you've already started with PHP, that might be the way to go ,so you might want to look at the PHP frameworks that are available.

Then the hard part: write the requirement, first in outline, then in exacting detail (eg http://www.artfulsoftware.com/dbdesignbasics.html).

Then you start coding the site.