How do I do this?

Hi everyone,

I'm rather new to the web design game, but I'm hoping to learn as much as I can. I'm currently enrolled in some HTML and Javascript classes that I'm sure will give me a much better understanding.

So, on to my question. There is this website that I visit regularily and I'm wondering what type of coding is behind its functionality. The site is wagerline.com. Basically, they allow their registered users to make sports picks and they keep track of the progress. For instance, I could bet on like 10 games and then once those games are over, I would be able to login and see my wins vs. losses, my overall win percentage, etc...

To sum it up, I want to know how to gather numerical information from a visitor, plug it into a database that automatically calculates a total and finally have their result automatically inputed into a table.

I hope this all made sense.

Any info would help greatly
-EJ

That particular site uses ASP.net, but there is a fair amount of choice with the server-side languages you could use to interact with your database and provide the content you want - are you planning to make a similar project yourself?

hi snow,

thanks for the info. i'm not exactly thinking about doing anything with it right now, but i can see how learning that type of coding could help me in the future.

i appreciate your help

Yep, PHP and ASP are two most popular ways of doing something like that. PHP is my preference with a MySQL database.

I'll just add that you would probably want to learn ASP.net rather than ASP - the former is a more recent technology with more support/new features; but the range of choice is impressive, if you ever do want to start - give us a buzz and we'll go over the pros and cons of most of these technologies.

All the best,
Snow

That's awesome guys!

Snow, before I read your post, I was actually trying to learn what the difference between ASP and ASP.NET was. I was also, trying to figure out which one I should try and tackle first. I think you just cut my learning time in half...thank you.

-EJ