Date: 06/05/07 (Web Development)    Keywords: database

My local college requires students to buy their school books. At the end of the year, they give them the option to sell them back to the school, at a loss. The problem is, every time they switch to a new edition of a book, they refuse to buy back the old ones. So the students end up with a lot of older edition books. Most of them are just a tiny bit different from the newer ones.

If I wanted to make a mini half.com for my local college, how would I go about it? I know I want a sort of database where students can search for books by Title, Author(s), ISBN, Edition, Publishing Date, Price, and Class Name and browse by category. I also want to have a place where students can post which books they're looking for.

I need an option to make payment online, through the mail, or face-to-face (since they're in the same college).

The site should operate as a mini half.com/trading post.

I think such a site would use forms, but which forms? And how?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/412170.html