First off, if anyone intends to respond with any negative comments whatsoever, please go prey on someone else. I may be highly php ignorant, but I am still a web design veteran who did freelance from the late 90s to 2010. What’s more, I’m doing this project as a hobby. Something to build that I can someday enjoy using. I don’t have the time nor the health reserves for dealing with any flack so if you can’t be nice, just don’t say anything at all. This preface got added because of so many previous calls for help that got nothing but useless rudeness from those I was approaching.
That said, I’ve been trying for years to create a website for a virtual airline. I tried building pieces myself, yet over and over again, I kept getting stuck at the “add new info to table” part. The college i went to for a web degree didn’t help as their faculty were completely clueless on php. Even when they tried to teach it. This way my add function never got fixed there.
Years later, after trying several different pre-made engines, I’m itching to just go back to trying to make my own. I have a plan for the functions and types of data storage I want it to have. Now, I just need some kind folks that can help me take that plan and start learning how to build what i need from that plan. I should also mention that any coding is going to need something to force error reporting as my webhost has turned it off, further frustrating me when I blow something up and only get a white page as my result.
My plan looks like this:
[code]-main page
.EASY LAYOUT TEMPLATE WITH LABELS
.logo header
.featured image header
.navigation bar
.news blog
.siderbar
–User block
–Latest 5 Flights
–Latest 5 Forum posts
–Featured Gallery Image
–Ad Sense box
–Badge box
-Captcha user-registration and system/password security measures.
-user management (all but db-id editable by admin)
.db-id (permanent/hidden)
.callsign QST###* *user-chosen numbers
.username
.title (site user group)
.rank
.avatar (default or user chosen)
.hub
.hours flown
.aircraft flown
.flights list
.tours started + % completetion
.charters flown
.ribbons (admin awarded by checking boxes inside admin-side user profile)
-content management
.blog w/ categories, admin-side review/management
—databanks: airports, flights, tours, charters, pilot reports
–airports
.icao (id key) required field
.name
.city
.state (default empty)
.country
.primary rwy length
.ils: yes or no
–flights
.flt#
.from icao
.to icao
.flt level
.flt plan (navigation list text field)
.distance in nm
.estimated flt time
–tours
.tour-id
.name
.tour-banner[fixed-size]
.#legs
.leg# [flight info list]
.total distance in nm
.comments
–charters
[same as tours without banner]
–pilot records [PIREPS]
.pirep-id# [hidden]
.date (automatic)
.flt# (optional)
.type: regular, tour, charter
.aircraft-type
.from-icao
.to-icao
.#NM flown
.time en-route
.flt-plan
.landing-rate (optional)
.comments
.network: offline, vatsim, other
—gallery: user submitted screenshots, categories,featured option
—forum
—additional pages: about, hubs, utilities, recommended shops
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Also, every function, etc that I write will need to be labelled so that I know what it does when my bad memory fails me. Yes, I still intend to write this, I just need people to walk me through the building process from the simple starting pieces to the complex internal organs. 
This has been my ongoing lab-rat project for a decade so I’m rather attached to trying to figure out how to get the right pieces built and how they go together to make it work.
On a side note, I will be slow responding from Thursday through the weekend as I’m having a wisdom tooth removed tomorrow afternoon. @_@
To those that respond with kind and useful instructions, you have my deep and profound gratitude.
~Christina