Auction website program, Setting it up

[el_leumas]

I'm setting up an auction website (Something like Ebay or Yahoo Auctions) for my school. Any recommendations on which programme to use? MySQL Auctions?


Don't think I'll be programming the entire thing myself. Most likely downloading what someone else has programmed and then implementing it with adjustments as neccessary. All recommendations are welcomed

[nick255]

Im guessing you will need a mix of different technology, im not sure theres anyone program out there to create an auction site with. (i may be wrong)

I suppose you will need a database of some sort to store and keep track of all the items, so you can use mysql or ms sql-server etc, depends on what your school has/is running i guess.

I would probably generate the pages using php, ie take a query from a page, use that on the database to retrieve some data and then dynamically create a webpage with php.

If you wanna be up to date you should check out xhtml and css (if you dont want to code it you can make it in dreamweaver or something like that)
If you dont want to write any php im sure you can probably find different premade scripts to use.

http://www.php.net
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp