PHP User BackEnd

I have built a website for a my father-in-laws band, and another website for a musician that I am acquainted with.  The issue is their gig dates are contently being updated & changed.  As of right now I have to change them each time, which is time consuming & pointless.  If I could build them a back end they could go to and update their dates themselves easily that would fix the current situation. 

So what I need is a back end that they can enter the date, place, city and time.  That information then needs to be placed in the drop down boxes that have tables with that information inside them.  I also need the past months to be removed automatically after the end of the month if possible. 

Does anyone know where a good tutorial for this is?  And if not could someone explain it to me.  As you probably realize from previous post I like to jump head first into something I have no clue in how to do.  Then when I finally get it working I know why it works & how to repeat the process.  I guess this is the way I learn....  I just want to thank all of you all for putting up with my recent slow comprehension and all of your help.

check google for "php news tutorial" there are a lot of them

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You can also use a blog system like wordpress for this.

Besides the easy content manager, a blog can also help with the traffic (syndication feeds, pings, etc.)

Thanks, I am going to look into both of those options & see what I come up with.  I will probably be back here asking more later! 

I just want to say thanks for all of your alls help.  And I want to thank Olaf for getting this thing working again after the hacking incident last night!

Of the two suggestions I am not sure which would be better from what I have read.... 

Anyone have a suggestion?

I am going to use the WordPress for my personal blog though, I am just not sure that it would work in this case.....

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Wordpress is very easy to work on, and very easy to install too.

It will take you less than 10 minutes to set it up.

On the other hand there may be a script that is better for what exactly you want to do, but I don't know any

If its only a calendar with maintenance function you are looking for have a look at hotscripts, they have a fairly big calendar section here I'm sure you can find something there that can do exactly what you want, or at least something very close to it that only needs minor modifications to do your job.

This is what I want the page to look like finished....

I am not sure if any of the calendars I saw would do this....

http://www.resurrectionbound.com/schedule.htm

Maybe look at some news tutorials, like Olaf suggested. Are the dates currently in the calender stored in a MySQL database? If they are you could just take the easy route and show the site owner how to update the data with phpMyAdmin.

They aren't in a database yet, and the users aren't the type that would be able to use the phpAdmin.  It's going to have to be EXTREMELY easy.....

They aren't in a database yet, and the users aren't the type that would be able to use the phpAdmin.  It's going to have to be EXTREMELY easy.....

yes right, it must be easy.

writing this kind of scripts is a kind of beginner php job, try a simple php/mysql tutorial first just
create a database
enter some data
create a page where you gonna outout the data

next filter the data with the data


if you got this, start to creat a small insert/update form for your customer

I think I got it.  I am going to try to work on it Monday or tomorrow. 

I've had like 3 hours sleep so I am going to go take a nap.

I really appreciate all of you help. 

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