Need help coding theatre box office app

[edelgaudio]

Hello all. I've been given the task of putting my school's theatre ticket reservation system onto the internet. It's a very simple system; all it has to do is take entries from a form (Name, which performance you want to go to, how many tickets you want, etc.), somehow save them, then allow someone to download a list of all the reservations. Unfortunately I only have experience in Java and HTML, and I don't think Java will be of much help, so I'm hoping someone can give me advice on what language I should learn/use to code something like this.

I've done some research and one way I think I could do this is with a MySQL database and Ruby on Rails. But I'd like to know some other options. Is it possible for PHP or Perl to take info from a form and save it in something like a text file, CSV file or database?

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[Dyslexic_Dog]

Yes PHP will connect to MySQL and pretty easily. There's alot of documentation on the web for working with MYSQL databases. PHP also has a built in database system called SQLite you may also want to look into that.

 

[tim_m]

if you want to go the php route, there's a great rapid development framework that is very similar to RoR for php, CakePHP. i've recently started using it and i love it.

 

[edelgaudio]

Is there any way to do something like this without using a database? Or is it the way to go?

 

[mikeblas]

You can use flat files, but why would you want to?