PHP + MySQL for the humanities?

Question

PHP

My other half, a humanitarian girl, wants to make a simple site where people can enter their first name, last name, email to register for the conference (non-commercial, because there is no budget). I started talking about PHP and MySQL, but she has never been an IT specialist, and now I don’t have time to mess with it. Are there any free projects that allow you to visually tweak a simple form with a ready-made design, so that submissions fall somewhere not even in the database, but can it just be in CSV? And it is important that there is a description of do one - do two - do three - that's the result. It would be necessary something similar to MS Access only online, or maybe I'm thinking stereotypically.
Z.Y. I thought about Google Docs, but somehow I don’t see simple options ...
З.З.Ы. And if this is not the case, then here is a ready-made idea for a startup. Monetization - through the display of contextual advertising.

Answer 1

Google docs, google forms?
docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=87809

Answer 2

Try weebly.com , it might have the functionality you need.

Answer 3

Look towards RoR
Making a blog in 15 minutes (video)
http://www.rubyonrails.ru/screencasts.html
За 15 минут мы начнем с нуля и закончим полнофункциональный движок для блога: с возможностью добавлять комментарии и основными административными функциями. И так как сама программа заняла всего 58 строчек кода, у нас еще осталось время на создание авто-тестов (unit tests), исследование журналов (logs) и просто возможность поэкспериментировать с предметной областью (domain model).

Answer 4

Isn't it easier to just use some CMS, make a site with a description of the conference and a BIG button "Registration for the conference" and there is a form. Let it all pour into MySQL. You can get data from it with some script or through the client.
Pros: you can immediately see the information what, where, you can add ads - transfer, start, program. Registration - at the same time confirmation by mail, so that there are fewer left. At the same time, you can mount a captcha module in the CMS and then the number of bots and spam will once again decrease.
I think all sorts of Joomla or Drupal will calmly pull it, but how to set it up for such purposes - I think it is written anywhere.

Answer 5

Easier and free than "Google Docs" and "Google Sites" nothing comes to my mind.
If it's not at all, then try Сoffeecup Web Form Builder, there you can, sort of like, collect it in .txt.
Well, or online solutions, mytaskhelper.ru/ for example, by the way, a free account should be enough.

Answer 6

There were somewhere Evgeny Popov's courses. For a serious study of WEB-skills, they are not suitable. But for your case just right. He sells them for money, but they are free on torrents. I myself did not use these courses - I needed a deep study, but they will definitely suit you.
"Joomla - Professional Website in One Day"
"Wordpress - Professional Blog in One Day"
In principle, one of these courses will be enough. But you can also take two other courses to make websites not on engines, but on your own, from scratch.
Golden collection from Evgeny Popov - Video tutorials