On 7/29/05, Bob Stia <rnr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello PHP list > > First allow me to apologize if this is the wrong place for this and > direct me to the proper place. (be nice now!) > > I know nothing about PHP and have read at least 100 faqs and googled for > hours. I don't even know some of the basics. > > Allow me to explain. I am the webmaster for a small web site for a > Florida car club. The members have been asking if they could post info > about events, communicate community wide, maybe post their own > Classified ads, etc, > > I would like to comply with their wishes for an email/blog kind of thing > but don't have the foggiest notion where to begin. The googling/faq's > don't help me a bit and appears to be pretty complicated. I don't even > know the basics. I really have no desire to go into a steep learning > curve to accomplish what should be a pretty simple thing. I need simple > and easy. > > I have composed in straight html (not that much,but enough) and with > several GUI's. (all open source Linux based) I compose on my system and > then simply upload to the site with FTP. I have found a few PHP > packages but are not sure what they do. They require PHP, MySQL or > Postgres, and Apache. Do I really need to install Apache? (The site is > hosted by a commercial remote ISP as a courtesy/good will thing and I > think they support PHP but do not wish to place any burden on them to > support the site) Do I really need a data base? > > Please be patient and point the old guy in the right direction. > > Thanks, > Bob S. > Try googleing for wiki software. The software that runs wikipedia is: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Main_Page Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/41/armstrong_louis.php Armstrong, Louis Song Lyrics -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
