I devoping a website right now, and I need to make a section where the will me a gallery of thumbnails surrounding a box in the middle like this:

X X X X X
X _____ X
X| |X
X| |X
X|____ |X
X X X X X

Horrible illustration I know. but what i want the user to do is grab drag and drop an X into that blank field and when that happens, the thumbnail will expand into the original size, the other thumbnails will disappear and will be replaced with text describing the image.

What woould be the best language to do this? What would this entail, and what do I need to search for as far as tutorials go?

Thanks

Well, it depends what server you have.

Personally i would go with PHP for the back end stuff as far as Members, Registering users and stuff. MySQL for the Information / Data. And Ajax for the picture stuff you want, or you might be able to do JavaScript, but i would do Ajax.

PHP is not hard to learn, it's actually quite simple. If you don't have much experience i would visit http://www.tizag.com/ for the PHP and MySQL stuff. They have some Ajax stuff but its not the greatest. I would Google that if i were you.

post deleted, Didnt read the full question.. I agree with the above~

PHP and MySQL for the backend (Stuff processed server side) stuff and AJAX for the user end.

Winzy AJAX Drag and Drop system