How can I allow a user to input data, to be displayed on a page

[Living]

I need to have a way for a user to input data into a table, more specifically, I need a user to input a date, and a text. The text would be displayed on the day that is specified. Then I need to know how to display this information on a page.

Unfortunately, I am very new to PHP, and have absolutely no idea how to do any of this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated..

Thank you

[Mordecai]

I would advise using a database (take a look at MySQL it's very easy and well documented). Store the date in timestamp mode (you can get a timestamp from strtotime()--just make sure to put it at the same time every time, so you have something to compare it with) and then select from a database using this time (of the current day).
For example, I enter: "5 May 2003", you want to strtotime() this at a certain time, let's say midnight (0:00), so you can use "0:00 5 may 2003" (and it should recognize this). Then, when checking the database, you want to select all rows with a date matching the current day's date, so look at mktime().

Note that using a timestamp should rule out all error in how they enter the date.

[eli03]

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