What to know - for building a form with PHP and MySQL

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Published on 2010-04-13T22:08:19Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 22:13 UTC
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Hello all,

I have three weeks to perform the following basic task.

I wish to create an online form in PHP that will get 5 numbers and with them:

  1. save the numbers to a MySQL DB
  2. do a simple computation on the numbers and return them as an output to the visitor

I already have a domain, hosting and a MySQL database+user.

I don't know PHP, or SQL or databases. I do have prior knowledge in C and R (which means I have some of the basics of programming, and I am not intimidated of a new languages).

My question are:

  1. Am I missing something? is there some other skill I should have for this task that I don't know of?
  2. What is a good way to learn the skills needed for the task I described?

Hope the question isn't too basic/general.

Thanks!

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