sid wrote:
> Hi,
> I am designing a website for our college students to buy and sell
> things on this site. It is supposed to be a non commercial website.
>

Commerce IS "buying and selling" Doh!

> I want to write the code in php as my college website also uses php. I
> am very new to php but am good at programming languages such as c, c+
> +,pascal, etc. Also I know html.
>
> I am learning php from the book "Programming PHP" by Rasmus Lerdorf
> and Kevin Tatroe. Please tell whether this book is the best place to
> start learning, although I have read 2 or 3 chapters and am able to
> understand it well.
> I also have another book called "Beginning PHP5, Apache, MuSQL Web
> development". It is a WROX book. Please tell which one would be
> better.
>
> Also, I would like to know some kind of mechanism that would stop
> students to type in abusive or irrelevent content on the website while
> they enter the description of what they want to sell.

Hang them. This stops their foul little mouths.

Or move to a secular country where its simply so much of a non issue
that they get bored with 4 letter words.


>
> Thanks