I want to make a website that people would have to login to, have accounts, and have statistics stored in their accounts. I think I have to know MySQL to do this, but I'm wondering if their is an easier way? It's like way over my head lol... I know html and CSS, thats it.

Also, what does it mean when the url ends in .php instead of .html?

Thanks! :)

toon

no, not really. you're going to have to save user information somehow, and that means a database or flat text files (both of which you require use of a server side language such as PHP)

I believe PHP is definately worth learning, but if you don't want to, you could try finding a pre-made script (a simple Internet search for PHP scripts should get you some results), or you could always pay someone else to do it :P

a .php extension indicates that there is PHP code on the page, and it will be parsed before being sent to the browser in order to process the PHP code