Best way to do this

[iviv]

Hey guys. I'm in a small 'clan' of gamers, and sometimes one of our problems is just working out what games we all have so we can figure out what to play, a game that everyone has. Currently we're using a google docs spreadsheet with all the games listed and coloured depending on if each person has it or not. Not massively scientific, but it helps. But how hard would it be to code a webpage so you say 'person x has this, this and that, person y has these' and then it gives you some checkboxes, you put a checkbox next to each person who's online and it gives you a list of all the games those people have in common.

And what would be the best language to use for this? I don't know much about programming, this is more of a look to see if its possible, if its particularly easy, and if its something I'd be able to do after reading a couple of books.
Or even if there's just a really easy way to do this already out there!

Thanks in advance!

 

[Tilluss]

One way to do it would be to save what games each user has in a database and then populate the webpage based what users you have selected. This could be done pretty simply in PHP, but if you haven't touched a coding language before you will find it quite difficult.

 

[rarryawn]

This sounds particularly easy, Definiely doable with 1 book! The page would be made in HTML, with PHP to fill it with some data and a MySQL database to hold that data (like what games each person has) . It doesn't sound like there is much need for any kind of login system as you all know each other so presumably there is trust that you wont edit someone else's (like with your current google spreadsheet!)

 

[chigley]

Sounds like a PHP/SQL job to me, perhaps with a bit of JavaScript to make the front-end pretty

 

[iviv]

Yeah, it sounded fairly simple. Stick the information into a database, and then just get the data from it when needed. I'll have a look at php then!