mrlol1

Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to PHP. I'm a thirs year music/music tech student and for my disseration I took a very ambitious task. I want to create a sort of social networking site for musicians. But I wanted to create it dynamically using PHP and MySQL. I want to basically allow users to register and sign up with their details basically. But the first problem I came across was actually making a custom registration page, I wanted things such as post codes (zip codes) so that I would then have a Google Maps overlay showing where users were. So that you could 'see' you local music 'scene'. So far I've been playing around with Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. I tried writing the PHP from scratch but after following various tutorials, but I had no luck what-so-ever with that approach. So I started using content management systems, which got me a lot closer, but I found I couldn't really edit custom registration pages etc. And the I would have no idea how to get the Google maps idea working. If anyone could nudge me in the right direction and give me a few tips and ideas as to how I'm most likely to achieve this then please reply, I would be highly grateful for you responses. Thanks, Ewan Valentine.