How to use PHP in school project

[megacool]

I have a very big school website project on my head that requires a lot of work. Its basically study guide site for the A+ Certification course. We're putting up lots of very helpful articles entirely written by us, multimedia such as animations and videos, some other features like forums, quizes, crams etc.

What I would like to know is that is there a good way of managing all the content (esp the articles) through a PHP script (ready made or written by me). I want to have some sort of mechanism where the php script will read a flat file insert it into the layout of the website. I also want to include a print, email to friend feature. I am very novice using PHP, i know how to install scripts and write very basic scripting features in it, but can't really come up with something as complex yet. I am wonderfing what kinda of techniques/approach would be best to be used with my project. It would great if someone could help me and direct me the right path. Thanks

[cheatpark]

http://www.phpnuke.org may help you a bit. You may have to edit the script to get it to do everything. Maybe someone here is willing to help.

[spec]

You will probably want to do a searchable index.
Hive a script in which you can upload Articles and other media and then have it create an index.
It might look something like this:

----------------------------------------------------------------

|___________| Search

Pages: 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|.....Last>

Item | Subject | Author | Media Type | Upload Date
-----------------------------------------------------------------
*Heres the file info

****

Something like that
:D

[megapuzik]

You can also try www.DCP-PORTAL.COM .
Its something like the nuke, just smaller..
Need to fix some bugs, and you have a great system