Help with database driven website

[jhauser42]

Hi all,
Iam fairly new to all of this and have a website in mind that I would like to build. It needs to be database driven as there will be searches done based on date and zip code.

Is there a good tool or template available to help me with this or do I need to learn more about PHP and MYSQL and do everything from scratch?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks You,
Joe

[essellar]

There's not enough information in your posting to allow anyone to point to a template/framework and say "this is what you want". That being said, there's not a lot in what you did post to indicate that you need to get into anything very complicated -- the PHP and SQL for what you have described is simplicity itself, and would be easy to implement with a very basic understanding of PHP and SQL (or, preferably, PDO); something you can learn in a very short time from a basic book/tutorial and a reading of the appropriate sections of the PHP Manual (again, particularly the entries concerning PDO as opposed to the more primitive and fragile MySQL or MySQLi methods).

[jhauser42]

Thank you for the reply. I apologize for not providing enough information. Basically what I would like to do will be very similar to a link directory. The information will consist of a name, address, day of the week that the info is valid and what is special about that day for that entry. I also would like to be able to search for this info based on location and date.

An example (although not of what I am looking at) would be a listing of parks and the hours they are open. I would like to be able to search this for say any park open Mondays that are in a 50 mile radius of my zip code. I realize that this is not all that comlpex to do, I am just fairly new at this and not quite sure where to start.

I also have never heard of PDO and will have to do a bit of research to know what that is.

Thanks again,
Joe