what should I learn for this?

Hi all,

I'm a beginner and would like to ask you a suggestion:

i'd like to create a site that should allow users to:
1) register with username and password
2) upload pictures with some tags
3) see all the pictures in one (or more pages), possibly sorted according to tags.

what is the best of doing this kind of site, and what should I learn? HTML and PHP?

thanks!
p.

You should learn (x)HTML and PHP for this. This may take a while, but PHP has a small learning curve compared to other languages.
I recommend you use xhtml instead of basic html as most find it neater and easier to produce valid code.
Here is a link for learning PHP PHP Recources for Beginners


Also, if you don't want to learn all these languages you can try using a cms (content management system) such as Drupal.

Good luck, any questions just ask!

- Alex

Don't forget CSS too! If you're starting from scratch, then go for HTML and CSS first, get the basics of them down, then look at PHP or whatever else you choose. There's some useful things in the beginner resources section, you could start with resources for learning html and css. You can always ask if you get stuck on anything along the way, someone around here will have the answer

For creating a membeship system have a look here
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/C...ship-System/1/

I have a script to upload images into a database and a page whcih displays all the thumbnails as links if you are interested

hi pck76,

i would say all the advice giving so far is very good and would add to this by saying i think you should start with xhtml first as this is now, more or less the accepted standard and replaces the old html. It is better to get into good habits now and the proper way of doing things rather than having to break bad habits latter. You also might want to give some thought to any database skills you might require, that is if you are going to develop a site with the kind of functionality you stated

best of luck
1databyte

What language would that be AdRock?

Monie, it's in the URL if you had looked.
PHP.

Lol, I mean this one AdRock...

If you wanted to create it yourself, you would need to know the above and MySQL aswell.

Wow, I always wanted to do that (in asp)
Maybe I'll come to you someday.

Thanks.