Searching a database...how to set it up?

[Baddass]

not a regular poster in here sadly, and my programming skills are certainly limited. However, can anyone suggest a relatively easy way to do the following:


I want to add a TFT panel searching tool to my website, some feature where people can simply type in a model number or make or whatever, and it searchs a database and gives the results. Fairly simple i guess, but needs to be simple to set up and easy to maintain. I will need to update this a LOT, so perhaps something (dont know if this is possible) where is scans an excel data base?

that way i can update the sheet offline and just upload it to replace the old one whenever there are updates...


hope that makes sense, any good suggestions?

 

[Baddass]

excellent, thanks for the links and suggestions guys. I'll have a read through those pages linked, and voodoofllux, your idea is the kind of thing i'm looking at. Will investigate and get back to you guys if i get stuck

thanks again

 

[Baddass]

ok having a brief read through it looks reasonably complicated. Like i said, im no web devloper expert

any chance someone can put together some REALLY basic for me which looks obvious enough to change. what i need really is one HTML page with a search box on it, you put a TFT model in there, and hit search. then it scans a database of some sort and returns the results as to what panel that TFT uses. If that makes sense? Then for instance if someone put in a manufacturer name like "Samsung", it would return a list of all the Samsung models saying:

Samsung XXX has xxx panel
Samsung XXXX has xxxx panel

etc

any way someone can put together a very brief example database page, where it is obvious enough for me to edit in the sections i need? Just something to give me a head start, i can pick things up quite quickly from there (hopefully )