Please help!
 

Now, I'm a PHP n00b for the most part lol... I can follow instructions on how to MOD a phpBB, but I want to make an actual PHP site and I cant find the tutorial or materials I need.

This is what I want to do:

I want to have a main site made out of PHP where the staff members can log in and edit content. My site is a videogame site and some of the staff members' jobs includes making new pages with game reviews for the main site. Since most of them dont know know HTML very well (if at all), I figured if I was able to make a site for them to log in, post the reviews in a form and as a result have it make a page to display the information as well as leave room for other members to leave comments and rate the game, that would be alot less of a hassle and provide much more interactivity.

I hope that wasnt confusing or too much to ask. Can anyone help?

Hello kunoSTAR,

What your talking about is called a Content Mangement System (CMS). I suggest you simply install one, such as Mambo.

If you have enough time, then some other member and i'd be posting a few tutorials here. So, keep checking the tutolias section.
Meanwhile you can go to www.tutorialized.com to get some tutorials.

I really thank you for the reference, MAMBO seems to do everything I need it to do... but now I'm having problems installing it!

Read this and see:
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=46533

It appears you got it installed correctly. Let us know if you have any other problems!

If Mambo's a little too complicated (or hard to customize - horrible templating system) try Drupal (www.drupal.org). I've used both and personally prefer Drupal over Mambo for *most* circumstances. There are still few instances we've opted to use Mambo but they were few and far between.

Just in case it matters to you, there's almost no way to make Mambo output valid XHTML w/ out tables unless you hack the core Mambo code. They're supposedly working on a better templating system and trying to get a lot of the output out of the core code but as of now it hasn't been done.

I'm pretty cool with mambo, the only thing I dont like about it is not having the option to leave comments on articles and stuff.

But I have a bigger problem that I'm about to post about... I hope someone can help!

Yeah,

Drupal is a great CMS, but I use Textpattern more for my sites because as a designer as well as a developer, to skin Textpattern is more to my liking.