Hey all!

I am thinking about doing some sort of advanced HTML for my website. I would like to have some sort of database whereby people can ‘register’ onto my website. I would need a register form and also a member’s area etc etc. How would I go about doing all of this?

Daydreamgraphics.com has a wonderful tutorial on that, the first part of which can be found here: http://www.daydreamgraphics.com/d/tutorial/list/177/2

wow! thanks for the quick reply! However the tutorial states: "If you are not familiar with using PHP and MySQL, this tutorial is not for you. Please read one of the easier tutorials in this site to give you the basic concept to advance. :)" aww hehe. would i need to download anything before hand??

You wouldn't need to "download" anything, but if you're unfamiliar with PHP/MySQL, you could either learn from Daydreamgraphics, or from this website:

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/

I learned a lot of PHP from that website. And of course, there's always the official PHP website.

I have found that the PHP website kind fo sucks for tutorials. It is a really good thing for an API (a listing / description / howto of all the functions in the versions).

One you become familiar with PHP, that API is the most valuable resource you will be abel to get yoru hands on, i promise. It saves a LOT of time. Lots of people write out a whole function, then they find out that there is a built in one...lol.