Good afternoon

Please excuse how clueless i am on this subject... The problem is i have an idea, and I'm pretty sure it will be easy to do but i have no idea where to start. I am not asking for anyone to do this for me, but what i would like to know is where can i look up for help on this? What would it be called so i can start to learn the basics etc?

This is my idea...


I run a clan on a Game
As part of the clan, members attend events and are given 'points' for doing so
These points are recorded in a table, so you can see how many you have earnt

I have included a picture of an example table below so you get an idea of what im talking about

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j264/dopiefreak/Points.png

Rather than editing this table manually though, i would like to create some sort of Admin Control Panel that i can log into via username and password. Once logged in i would like to be able to do the following...

Choose a member, and then choose the event they have attended
Once i click OK this would add a point to the users total
And once it adds a point to this user, i would like it to keep a record on a page elsewhere which events they have attended
Aswell as this i would like the option to add members to the table... For instance type there name in a form, click OK and it adds them to the table


I'm unsure if this makes sense to anyone, i understand it may be complicated or it could be relatively simple but i have no idea where to start off. I'm not sure what i should be looking up to get help on this

Many thanks

Doing such a system is a project for a professional programmer, though is quite simple it just involves time and investment. If you want, you might want to check out a freelance listing website.

You could also do it yourself - consider learning PHP and MySQL. Then you could edit it from phpMyAdmin or another tool, halving the work you need to do.

Thanks for the reply Tom

Thats good enough, it gives me an idea of where i need to start :)

Doing such a system is a project for a professional programmer, though is quite simple it just involves time and investment. If you want, you might want to check out a freelance listing website.

You could also do it yourself - consider learning PHP and MySQL. Then you could edit it from phpMyAdmin or another tool, halving the work you need to do.

Honestly this is all simple database work. Once he gets down simple SQL syntax this will be a breeze. He can always come here and ask for additional help.