Visitor Counter, Calculated Fields, and Radio Buttons

[zhangh99]

I want to add basic features to my index/home page, e.g. Visitor Counter, Email for user to contact me. Where do I start?

In addition, I want to make my home page 'interactive', by creating a few fields, ask users to enter value, then I calculate a result. Where do I start?

Moreover, I want to allow users vote, by creating a few radio buttons, and compile results.

[leafypiggy]

looks like you need a CMS (content management system)

I would recomend Joomla. You can download the Stable 1.5.3 release at Joomla.org

If you want to stick with your site, contact me and I might be able to help.

[zhangh99]

I downloaded Joomla to my computer, but cannot open the install.php page.

[crisp]

I downloaded Joomla to my computer, but cannot open the install.php page.

Unless your computer is also a webserver with php and mysql installed, it's never likely to run from there. Log in to cpanel, scroll down to the Software / Services section and click on Fantastico De Luxe, from there you can install Joomla (or pretty much any CMS you fancy) on your site.

If you're looking to carry out some development off-line, you'll need to at least install a webserver, database server and PHP on your computer before installing joomla.

http://httpd.apache.org/
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#downloads
http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Without knowing which OS you're running it's difficult to point you in the direction of a tutorial to get your server up and running, but google is your friend, there's plenty of how-to's out there (hint, if you're running a windows box, search for WAMP tuts, if your running Linux, search for LAMP tuts ;) )

[leafypiggy]

no. you want the 1.5 release. you download the zip file, upload it to your site VIA the file mgr. and use the unzip function.

[nexhunter]

zhangh if your going to use joomla make sure you have intermediate for php version, you can request it by going to the main page, logging in and scrolling down while in the account panel and then type in reason for upgrading,

[leafypiggy]

o yeah. forgot to mention that.