As a hobby I'm creating a site for my home town which lists all the clubs, bars and pubs in the area. A bit of a nightlife guide.
As I'm a bit of a novice I've started to create all the pages in html, and there's literally over 50 places yet to include. So it will be a painstaking process of making each page 50 times from scratch, and saving them. e.g. branigans.html, walkabout.html, etc.
Is it possible to make a table which stores all the entries like a database (put it on my server space), and when a person clicks on the Branigans link or whatever bar they want, the relevent info for that place is pulled from the database and is generated onto a templated page. e.g. i set the look and feel of the page up and designate areas where i want the data to be displayed when it gets pulled.
I've been told PHP and MySQL can achieve this. But I dont know where to begin. Can anyone give a topline outline on how to go about achieving this with my site? I'll research the methods you guys provide. (i'm a total newbie to this).
