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

[boballoo]

I posted this on another forum before finding this PHP forum so please excuse the cross posting.

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.
4) Where to find free scripts for this project that I can manipulate to suit my purposes.

Thanks for your help!

Robert Kidd
director@editfast.com

 

[sonnysavage]

First question: are you a programmer, or do you like programming? If not, you should get a programmer because PHP is programming.

Sites with tutorials that I've found useful:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/

http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/