Hey guys, I've been stuck in a small project I volunteered for. I'am trying to create a website that allows users to input information & update it as needed.

Let me explain myself. We work at a small insurance office, and we got too many papers going around. I saw once a business that had something like it.

I want to know if it is possible to integrate php into HTML layouts and connect it to MYSQL.

Kind of like a forum. We want to be able to:

Login to the website (has to be password protected)

- input customers name (text area)
- input Customer last name (text area)

-choose marital status (drop down menu)
-Choose Car (drop down menu)
-Choose year (drop down menu)

- Input notes (text box)

- Be able to Search for records, display entered information and also to be able to update/edit the information as needed

Got any suggestions? looks kind of complicated to me, but perhaps some of you may point me to any good tutorials or apps that allow me to get there faster. Sorry if this has been already addressed somewhere on these forums. I wasn't able to find any content like it. Please forgive my lack of knowledge

Thanks for reading.

While it will take a decent amount of code, what you want isn't very hard. There are tons of tutorials that cover every aspect of what you want to do.

Here's a good tutorial for handling the forms:
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/examples/formex.php

An easy way to password protect the page:
http://www.totallyphp.co.uk/scripts/...ect_a_page.htm

A more complicated but more secure way to password a page would be with .htaccess, here's a tutorial for that:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml

Here's a tutorial for searching a database with PHP/MySQL:
http://www.htmlite.com/mysql011.php


Those should get you started. Come back if you have any problems or specific questions, I'd be happy to help.

Hire someone if you need it urgently. You will spend months on doing it yourself and still the result will be slow and ugly.

You need to learn first the basic of php. In it you will soon code it yourself. Have patience and concentrate while learning. It sounds very easy for me but for you, I suggest to learn it first

Simple question, before opening the lid on any further questions I might have: did you just want to access it yourself, as a company, from an administrator's point-of-view

or

Did you want to allow anybody and everybody to also create accounts, freely register themselves, and fill out their own info?