PHP - Sde Recommendations????

Hi   What is the best recommended way to "sort through" and "place certain data" into a sql table?   For example, I create a input form.php      Company Name: 

The Blah Company

Product/Industry

Dedicated Servers

HTML Source Code

<div class="allservers">		
			<div class="serverType" id="server1">	
			<div class="myFeaturesBox">
				<ul class="tabination">		        		                  		            
					<li><a href="#" class="activeTab" data-tab='feature'>FEATURED</a></li>
					<li><a href="#" data-tab='single'>SINGLE PROCESSOR</a></li>
					<li><a href="#" data-tab='dual'>DUAL PROCESSOR</a></li>
					<div class="clear"></div>			
				</ul>					
				<div class="feature myTab activeTabs">
				<table class="table">
					<tr>
						<th></th>
						<th>Processor</th>
						<th>RAM</th>
						<th>Hard Drive</th>
						<th>Price/Mo</th>
						<th></th>
						<th></th>
					</tr>
					<tr>
						<td><img src='img/server.png' alt='Server' width="20" height="20" /></td>
						<td>Intel Xeon E3-1230 (4x3.2GHz)</td>
						<td>8 GB DDR3</td>
						<td>1x500 GB SATA</td>
						<td>$98.00</td>
						<td><a href="https://portal.securedservers.com/wap-jpost3/UP011013E31230" target="_self"><img src='img/deploy.png' alt='Deploy Now' width="86" height="18" /></a></td>
						<td class="wB"></td>
					</tr>
					<tr>
						<td><img src='img/server.png' alt='Server' width="20" height="20" /></td>
						<td><div style="position:relative;">Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3 (4x3.4GHz)</div></td>
						<td>8GB DDR3</td>
						<td>1x1 TB SATA</td>
						<td>$128.00</td>
						<td><a href="https://portal.securedservers.com/wap-jpost3/UP031013E31240" target="_self"><img src='img/deploy.png' alt='Deploy Now' width="86" height="18" /></a></td>
						<td class="wB"></td>
					</tr>
					<tr>
						<td><img src='img/server.png' alt='Server' width="20" height="20" /></td>
						<td><div style="position:relative;">Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3 4-bay (4x3.4GHz)</div></td>
						<td>8GB DDR3</td>
						<td>4x500 GB SATA</td>
						<td>$148.00</td>
						<td><a href="https://portal.securedservers.com/wap-jpost3/UP431013E31240" target="_self"><img src='img/deploy.png' alt='Deploy Now' width="86" height="18" /></a></td>
						<td class="wB"></td>
					</tr>
					<tr>
			</table>

Submit Button --> sends to the "sorting process?" than into proper DB tables for search query.        Ultimately, there I require to be able to pull from my DB upon query, pricing, hardware, processor, etc..

Any recommendation for me to try? I'm new to PHP but I want to learn and do it myself (better after effect feeling than paying someone)

I had an interesting idea, but I don't know if it exsisted... Say for example if I had designed the CNN homepage, that clearly gets updated every few minutes with new news, if I wanted to show this in my portfolio as as example of a project I have designed, is there a way of creating a thumbnail or image of the site, which would be updated in real time to go along side the description? (I say real time, but I guess I mean every couple of hours or so)

If anyone has seen anything like this or has any suggestions, let me know what you think!

I previously used https://www.phpdoc.org/ (not sure about the part 2 part) but got out of the habit.  Wish to change, but had more installation problems than expected.  Is it still considered a good solution?  If so, any recommendations whether I should install using pear, phar, or other?  Thanks

Hi,

I have finished a webshop (coded in php, Javascript, MySQL) for a client and they want to add a Forum . Does anyone have any recommendations for a free forum I can just drop in with minimal setup ?

In an ideal world it would be good if it used MySQL so I can create a forum account at the same time they create their customer account, but its not the end of the world if that's not possible.
 

Many thanks