Hello everybody, I'm new to these forums...and I'm not that good with webbuilding. I know basic HTML, but for the most part I'm a graphics guy. But I have a website to build and I figure im going to need your help. Okay here's my website to build:

I need a website where visitors will come. They will see a big page with some forms on it (name, color, score1 (number), score2 (number)). They will fill these fields in and then click the finish button and score1, and score2 will be averaged to find score3. Score3 will be stored according to the name and color. Then a different person at another time can type in that same name and enter their own scores, their score3 is averaged with the other score3's that have been entered. Later someone can come back and search the name, and find average of every score entered.

Some questions:

1) What will I need to have on my hosting plan to do this (MySQL, php, .etc?)

2) What could I do to ensure their is no cheating (entering a score over a million times to bump up the average)?

3) What type of hacking vulnerabilities and such will I have to look out for?

4) uh..how do I do this (important one :P)

Thanks

Dont understand what you are intending. Anyway, Learn php or get the help of a php(or any other scripting lang.) guy for the purpose.

Toasty,

This is vague. However, your project sounds relatively simple. PHP is free and it is pretty intuitive. If I understand what you are trying to do it sounds like all you would need is a MYSQL table and PHP on a webserver (this could just be your PC).

You can create a form in PHP that stores each participants input into varibles. Calculations can be computed on these and they can be ultimately stored into a MYSQL DB table.

Do some homework on PHP forms, variables. Check this site out:

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

-Nick