what do i need to know to do this for a website?

[unwashed potato!]

building a site at the moment that i am building to learn new skills.

the idea of the site is a directory that will have it so users and guest can submit a website. I know there are a million directories out there but this is just a test website to get my skills up and then thats it.

heres the idea i have for the site which i would like to know what i'd need to learn and how i'd go about doiong them, obviously not indepth exlpantion but something like of for a user acocunt you'd need to set up a database, then php to login etc.

i want to:
1. allow people to have a login account
2. allow either user or guest to submit a site which will either be posted directly to the page it was submitted on, or emailed to me for review then submission
3. have a stats part, showing how many members, how many submited websites, sites viewed etc
4. list of random sites that have been submitted, and change every refresh of the page.
5. latest 20 submitted sites list.

thats all for the moment, though there is going to be more later

thanks

 

[unwashed potato!]

Top top marks for response. That was the most absolutely perfect post for what i wanted to get, just the right amount of informaiotn that i know where i need to go, but not enogh that i have to work out how i get there by myself.

anyways, looks like i will have a busy week ahead of me then.

thanks all