Help needed for a site idea i have..

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Man-O-Leisure
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Help needed for a site idea i have..

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Hey guys, am after some help / advice as i dont know too much about PHP development at all..

I am looking to launch a site, that i want to be able to do some particular things that i am hoping i could get a PHP dev to do for me. Basically i want you guys to tell me if this is possible:

To make a database driven site, with search facility with category search, similar to say whitepages.com where each result gives a formatted webpage about the business? the tricky bit, i want that page automatically generated by items that the client uploads via a form, which would include a certain sized photo, and text and whatever, so i already stipulate the sizes of images to fit?? does that make sense?

Any input is apreciated guys!

Thanks in advance
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Man-O-Leisure wrote:Basically i want you guys to tell me if this is possible:
Yes, its possible.
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Excellent.. Thanks for the reply
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Man-O-Leisure wrote:Excellent.. Thanks for the reply
Was that a sarcastic response? The elipses suggest sarcasm but perhaps it was a typo on the full stop?
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Whats the elipses? And no there was no sarcasm there! I got a response i needed, so was thanking the user.
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Elipses == "..."

and anything is possible [within the laws of physics], theoretically speaking. Implementation difficulty is relative, what is impossible to a novice developer might be a flick of the wrist for a professional
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Man-O-Leisure wrote:I am looking to launch a site, that i want to be able to do some particular things that i am hoping i could get a PHP dev to do for me. Basically i want you guys to tell me if this is possible:

To make a database driven site, with search facility with category search, similar to say whitepages.com where each result gives a formatted webpage about the business? the tricky bit, i want that page automatically generated by items that the client uploads via a form, which would include a certain sized photo, and text and whatever, so i already stipulate the sizes of images to fit?? does that make sense?
I couldn't follow the highlighted part above, but look, the general point is that if you see something done on another web site, you don't need to ask "is it possible?" Obviously it is. To receive help, you need to ask a specific question that maybe some of us will be able to answer. And please don't bother asking something like "How do I write a PHP script that does...?" This is a forum where we try to help each other solve specific problems, not a school where you can learn computer programming.

I don't mean to be harsh, just realistic.
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Yea dude, no offense, but your question is pointless. Of course it's possible... just about every site on the internet does what you're asking. A better question would be, "What's a good place to start?", or "Can you point me in the direction of some literature on the topic?", or "Can I hire one of you to do it for me?".

So, think about it for a second, then rephrase your question.
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