Site like bookins.com

[designer mama]

Greetings!

I am a web/graphic designer looking to enter the wonderful world of back-end programming...

I was curious as to what programs are used to create sites like bookins.com or amazon.com where the users provide content and products and they are able to be seen by other users. I would think that it is some sort of combo of PHP, ajax and javascript, but am not sure.

Anyone have any ideas? Advice? Thank you so much for your help.

Best regards,
designer mama

[ratcateme]

you can use ajax and javascript to create the interface but what you really need to look at is databases and how they work and can be included in your PHP code.
one of the most common in PHP is MySQL (mysql.com).
i would advise you to setup a webserver on your main PC for debugging i use XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html)

Scott.