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[phreniacz]

Hi...

I am a student in computer college.
I am intranet website administrator.
I wish to add to my page:

1. Guest Book
2. User Polling
3. Email Account
4. Forum Discussion

Am I have to write them all with PHP or anything else?
Please help me. I so need to know and able to make them.

Thank you so much
Regards.

[duniyadnd]

for the list you wanted, in most cases, you will need to use PHP with a backend database. You could make a Guestbook, Polls with flat files.

A good cheap (free) database is MySQL for what you need to do. A forum such as this I believe runs on MYSQL and is run with PHP. You can also use Perl, or ASP to run CGIs.

Good luck.

[phreniacz]

I am sorry.
But I don't understand about how to use SQL or PHP at all.
Would you like to tell me how I can learn.
Or if it possible, May you can give me the sample, pls..
(Sorry to annoy you.)

Btw, FrontPage has Guestbook facilities.
How to make it activated?

[Spookster]

Well you have to learn how to walk before you can run. You should learn how to use PHP before starting on any big projects. Here are some website with tutorials you can read through to help you get started

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial_index.php

https://www.zend.com

and of course here is the PHP manual which is what you will use to look up what functions it has and what they do and how to use them.

https://www.php.net

For learning SQL you can use this site

https://www.sqlcourse.com

https://www.sqlcourse2.com

For MySQL database you can get everything you need from here

https://www.mysql.com

For administering the MySQL database you can use what is called phpMyAdmin.

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/

Avoid using Microsoft Frontpage. It is by far one of the worst tools to use in web development. Either use just a simple text editor or use something like Macromedia Dreamweaver.