Novice question (databases) Options

[jthen]

Hi,

I have never done any web authoring without WYSIWYG editors (eep!) but have a concept I'd like to flesh out. The problem is that I don't know where to start to figure out how to do it. It is (seemingly) rather simple, so I don't think I need to learn an entire language, but if someone could pinpoint where to start, I'd appreciate it.

I want to create a website that will do the following:

-Have a database consisting of short strings, each associated with URLs.
-Allow manipulation of that database from the website (retrieval of URLs given a certain string, insertion/editting of entries)

Also, I want input (search terms) to be able to be reformatted so they retrieve the correct URL. For instance, I might want the letters "afgj" to be associated with "http://www.google.com," but have the order be irrelevent (so, someone could type in aghf or fajg). Also, it would be useful to have a wildcard function (afg* to retrieve any entry with the letters a, f, g).

Thank you so much for your time!

[Darin McGrew]

What kind of experience do you have with programming or databases?

[Darin McGrew]

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