Help! Building site similar to...

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Trial User
3 posts

Hi!

I'm planning on building a site similar to this site below.

http://www.coolmyspacecomments.com/christian.html

I know that there is a faster way to do this than coding the whole page in html.

Photobucket have a system that will allow you to upload pictures and it will automatically create the html code that you can use to paste on your myspace comments. Is there a script or tools that coffecup have that can accomplish this? If not is there any other way I can accomplish this?

F.Y.I. I'm only familiar with html now but I can learn new stuff easily if I have the manual and the resources.

Thanks!
User 388878 Photo


Customer Support Specialist
100 posts

Hi there!

What you're trying to do is going to require more than just HTML. You'll need HTML and PHP, most likely, as well as a database my like MySQL.

You'll use HTML to display the page, naturally. PHP will handle the file uploads and store the pictures and code in the MySQL database, and the MySQL database will hold everything. The PHP will also be responsible for retrieving the MySQL info and displaying it as HTML for your users.

Here's a good site for beginning with this type of setup:
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql

A Google search for "PHP/MySQL tutorial" will also yield some interesting results:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en& … tnG=Search

I hope this helps!
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David R.
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
An Internet 500 Company
http://www.coffeecup.com
User 429327 Photo


Trial User
3 posts

Thanks! I was hoping that there is a script or software that will handle all the coding. I will read the links that you provided.
User 388878 Photo


Customer Support Specialist
100 posts

I'm glad I could help out! It's a bit of a learning curve, but the skills you gain from learning something like this are invaluable.
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David R.
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
An Internet 500 Company
http://www.coffeecup.com

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