[Codey09]

I've been approached to produce a website for a car dealership, where he wants a basic site with the standard pages, home, about, services, cars & contact.
They want to be able to upload pics of the cars and the details themselves and also to remove them once they have sold them.

I am new to php and would like a challenge, can anyone suggest any good tutorials on how to do the back end or would it be simpler to use a cms such as wordpress?

[RudiVisser]

Do you want to learn or do you want to get it done?

If the latter, use an existing system.

If not, welcome!

What you're looking for is pretty much a standard website, what I would do is read up on some basics and get a site out there with a simple header/footer (I have a tutorial on something similar to this which you could probably use). Once that is done you can move on to adding the dynamic database functionality and get the images uploaded etc.

[dbthegrandtour]

I actually did something very similar to what your are trying in php. It is not hard but if you are new to the language it does have a little learning curve to it. What you need to consider is that if you use a CMS you will have to learn how to use the CMS as well. I find the time I spent learning how to do something effectively on a CMS takes as much time as to just writing my own script. This is not always the case but it is usually what I have come to find. Now as far as a full PHP website there are a few things to consider. First the details of each picture and to which picture they pertain to will need to be stored more then likely into a Database because if you are just going to hard code each page it almost defeats the purpose of the language. So do you know MySql because you may need to learn that as well. Also I am sure you have thought of this is you will need storage for the pictures which is not usually an issue but if you are talking about thousands of pictures then you will start noticing storage problems. Another thing and a big thing you may wan to consider is scalability of the website if it will be a high traffic webpage with alot of hard logic involved then it could start to cause issues. This probably is not a huge concern for you but it is just something to consider. Now all that being said if PHP is still the way you want to go http://www.w3schools...php/default.asp and http://www.tizag.com/phpT/ have just just about everything you need to get yourself started. If you are not ready for all that a CMS may be the way to go. I hope this was helpful

[Codey09]

RudiVisser, on 18 August 2011 - 11:21 AM, said:

Do you want to learn or do you want to get it done?

If the latter, use an existing system.

If not, welcome!

What you're looking for is pretty much a standard website, what I would do is read up on some basics and get a site out there with a simple header/footer (I have a tutorial on something similar to this which you could probably use). Once that is done you can move on to adding the dynamic database functionality and get the images uploaded etc.

Thanks RudiVisser, the tutorial helped and made alot of sense, when are you going to finish it?

[Codey09]

RudiVisser, on 18 August 2011 - 11:21 AM, said:

Do you want to learn or do you want to get it done?

If the latter, use an existing system.

If not, welcome!

What you're looking for is pretty much a standard website, what I would do is read up on some basics and get a site out there with a simple header/footer (I have a tutorial on something similar to this which you could probably use). Once that is done you can move on to adding the dynamic database functionality and get the images uploaded etc.

Thanks RudiVisser, the tutorial helped and made alot of sense, when are you going to finish it?

[RudiVisser]

Codey09, on 19 August 2011 - 10:01 AM, said:

Thanks RudiVisser, the tutorial helped and made alot of sense, when are you going to finish it?

Thanks!

I have a few tutorials on the go and chip away at each of them every weekend (and some week nights when I can), was going to have some done pretty soon but tomorrow's my birthday so I'm away for the weekend.

I'll do my best to get it done by the end of next week though for sure.

[Codey09]

RudiVisser, on 19 August 2011 - 10:06 AM, said:

Codey09, on 19 August 2011 - 10:01 AM, said:

Thanks RudiVisser, the tutorial helped and made alot of sense, when are you going to finish it?

Thanks!

I have a few tutorials on the go and chip away at each of them every weekend (and some week nights when I can), was going to have some done pretty soon but tomorrow's my birthday so I'm away for the weekend.

I'll do my best to get it done by the end of next week though for sure.

Happy Birthday for tomorrow and have a blinding weekend!