[PHP] PHP noobie

[Bob Stia]

Hello PHP list

First allow me to apologize if this is the wrong place for this and 
direct me to the proper place. (be nice now!)

I know nothing about PHP and have read at least 100 faqs and googled for 
hours. I don't even know some of the basics.

Allow me to explain. I am the webmaster for a small web site for a 
Florida car club. The members have been asking if they could post info 
about events, communicate community wide, maybe post their own 
Classified ads, etc,

I would like to comply with their wishes for an email/blog kind of thing
but don't have the foggiest notion where to begin. The googling/faq's 
don't help me a bit and appears to be pretty complicated. I don't even 
know the basics. I really have no desire to go into a steep learning 
curve to accomplish what should be a pretty simple thing. I need simple 
and easy.

I have composed in straight html (not that much,but enough) and with 
several GUI's. (all open source Linux based) I compose on my system and 
then simply upload to the site with FTP. I have found a few PHP 
packages but are not sure what they do. They require PHP, MySQL or 
Postgres, and Apache. Do I really need to install Apache? (The site is 
hosted by a commercial remote ISP as a courtesy/good will thing and I 
think they support PHP but do not wish to place any burden on them to 
support the site) Do I really need a data base?

Please be patient and point the old guy in the right direction.

Thanks,
Bob S.

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Re: [PHP] PHP noobie

[Bob Stia]

On Friday 29 July 2005 02:55, Jochem Maas wrote:
> Bob Stia wrote:
> > Hello PHP list
> >
> > First allow me to apologize if this is the wrong place for this and
> > direct me to the proper place. (be nice now!)
>
> this list is really for people who are programmning in php.
> as you describe it your looking for a php solution as an end user,
> so no this is not really the right place - although I couldn't
> really say where you would be better off.

.
>
Hello PHP people,

First of all let me thank all of the kind people who replied to my call 
for help and intruded into your domain, and there were many of you. It 
is much appreciated. I scrutinized all of your replies and have gained 
some knowledge from your replies.

Some of you have offered help privately and I may well call upon your 
expertise. May I reserve the right to return to this list with a few 
questions???

Thanks again,
Bob S.

  

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