database slash classifieds?

[new0078910]

Hi, im new to website designing. I wanna build a website but have no programming knowledge. The site is like the classifieds, people can sell there products. My idea is very similar to what a message board does. I want people to post text(there product and info about themselves) and pictures and when they submit, it’ll immediately appear on the site on a next page. I dont know anything about message boards. Ive tried to do this with forms but i can only send the submitted text and pics to an email.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks

[Demaestro]

You will need to set up and interact with a database.

Some reading and learning will be required. You will also require some scripting language. I assume you have something installed to have the forms email stuff.

What you want to do is have form submissions result in a entry to the database. You will want things like show_from_date show_to_date to be storing data

Then you will need to set up a page(s) that will read the database entries and display them if the date you are viewing them is >= show_from_date and <= show_to_date.

If you have any questions I will be happy to help you with some DB questions.

You might want to start a new thread in that area with your questions. Or message a mod and ask them to move this there... just post back, it will take some learning but it won't be over your head I am sure.

[edited by: Demaestro at 8:30 pm (utc) on May 14, 2007]

[thecoalman]

From one semi novice to a complete novice understand there is a lot of issues to deal with. Most importantly security, all your input and files have to be checked and cleansed of any possible security problems of which there many. Even software that's been developed by professionals will have problems. Be prepared to do some heavy duty reading if you want to use something in a live environment.

Having said that see what type of server software you are running, whether it's PHP or ASP and the type of database. A google search will bring up numerous tutorials to get you started.

Personally I myself like to learn by example, much of what I learned is from first getting the basics down then moving on to modifying a phpbb forum with pre-made mods. From there I started writing my own basic scripts.

Try sourceforge.net for a pre-made open source script for classifieds, FYI phpbb has a modification for classifieds but would be overkill if you only want the classifieds.