Randy,
You can learn a lot from scripts you'll find on the web (a lot of that learning will come from fixing their bugs!) but I think you're going to need 2 things:
1. A good book on PHP/MySQL
2. Time to learn (about 6 months or so to start getting 'good')
That's not to say you can't get your project done in a week or two - you can. But it takes longer to really 'learn' any server-side code / database language.
Good luck & enjoy.
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