Help!!Creating an auction room

[Anon]

Hello guys, I am new to PHP and I want to create a simple auction room. My idea on how to do this is the following.
When a user places a bid this one would be checked against the current bid, if higher it would be stored and would replace the current bid, if not it would simply be discarded. I know this sound simple to all of you experts but can anyone give me a hand to get started?

Thank you.

[Anon]

Your going to need a database, mysql

have the data post to this sort of thing
you will need to have the bidder info sent to code somewhat like this

$dba=mysql_connect("localhost","root");
mysql_select_db("auctions");
$tpq="SELECT * FROM items";
$res=mysql_query($tpq,$dba);
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($res)){
if($currentbid>$row[bid]){

here you will need to
put the code that will
write the new bidder info
for this item

}
}

go research the functions above and that will give you a good start