gift/bridal registry

[laurton]

I'm still fairly new to PHP/MYsql so bear with me.

I'm in the midst of making an ecommerce site. All was going fine until I tried to make a gift registry system. I want the user to be able to log in and put items in their list so others can view it and purchase items from the list. (kind of like Amazon's)

I'm not looking for anyone to wrie the code for me (unless you want to, so I can study it.) I'm just looking for a push in the right direction, and any tutorials that would help me with this project.

Thanks in advance.

[saronoff]

The best reference is PHP.net or a good book on PHP/MySQL. First thing you want to do is figure out what information you need to have in the database.

You're probably going to need a user table and an items table at the very least. A good idea would be to have a userid field in the user table thats an "Auto Incrementing Integer" (check mysql.com for reference on MySQL).

As far as login you're going to have to decide how secure you need to be and whether you want to use sessions or cookies.

From there the coding is not very hard at all, you're just pulling things out of the database and displaying them.