Newbie Help - PHP/MYSQL

[agurney83]

[FONT=Tahoma]Good morning all,
Im just after a bit of assistance if deciding the best choice of software to develop a project im starting out on. The idea is to allow (registered) users to book an appointment at a surgery through a web-browser. The data will have to be stored within a database and im envisaging this to be in a calender form if possible to select an apropriate slot.
My first thought would be to develop this in PHP/MYSQL or would you not advise this.
Regards,
Adam Gurney [/FONT]

[thorpe]

theres really not much you cant do with php/mysql, i guess your descision really should come down to what your comfortable with.

php/mysql would satisfy your requirements easily, but so would just about any of the other server-side techs out there. do you know php? do you know any other server-side language?

your best bet is to go with what you know. if you dont know any, then php is as good a starting point as any other.

[agurney83]

No, although I've done a small amount of work with PHP, mainly passing data into a database through forms so this will be a big challenge indeed. Any tips on where to start and tutorials that would be beneficial would be appreciated immensly.