Need help setting up a registration website

[i3uu]

I will preface this topic by saying, I have never built a website before. That being said, I am rather tech savvy and know my way around computers (typical). I know the very basics of c++ and can catch on to code and whatnot.

Hello TPU, haven't posted on here in awhile. Anyways, I am in much need of some assistance. I need to set up a very small registration website for my church. We are having a conference within the next few weeks and want to have an option for people to pre-register to come to the event. It will cost $10(i think) and we want the people to pre-pay if possible. All we really want to have this site do is:

-allow people to register to the event (username/password)
-allow the people to pay (pre-set amount of $10)
-let us know if they have paid or not
-give us their name and any contact information we need (email/phone/location)
-allow us to give announcement messages (email?) as the date becomes closer

I know this kind of thing has been done several times before and it is not a new question to be asking, but I'm just unsure on how to accomplish this. We are hoping to use something like paypal to hold all of the registration money. If anyone here has any experience in this type of project, could you please post below or PM me. I, along with many others, would greatly appreciate it. I tried a quick google search but felt it would be better to get a little bit more reliable information.

Thanks

 

[Zyon]

Website huh? You could set up a database containing the list of members and their contact information, and then set up a webpage form that they will use to input the values, then have a submit button which sends the form as post to where you want it and then code in what you want to do with the form (create database entry using the details?), the pay part is going to be tricky because you need to link up with Paypal so that when they press 'Pay' and log in to Paypal the money will be directed to you, otherwise... I could say I 'paid' you $10000000 and in reality you get empty promise.

As for the let us know if they paid or not just have a boolean of 'paid' and make it when they paid enough their entry is updated as 'true'.

.NET or php would be useful for this kind of project. But really 5 minutes on keyboard isn't going to fully explain