Whatkind of script do I need?

[Sunfrog]

I want to make a website that is basically a bunch of links. It would be easy in HTML but I want it to do some things for me. I want it to add links each day from a list and remove expired links. I also want a little calendar thing people can click on to see which links expire today and which expire tomorrow etc... I want the webpage to stick that info into the calendar for me.

It will have catagories like, oh, red, blue, green, and when they click on blue they will see a list of links to blue things. Some of the links expire in 2 days, some expire in 1 week, etc..

I want the people to become members so I can email them once in a while.
It would be nice if they could rate the links with the tiny stars, and maybe post a comment about the link if they want to. (If they are members.) It should say how many people have rated that link in tiny letters.

Some links will have a little circle next to them like this: O. If they click the O it turns red and remembers to be red every time they visit, until that link expires, or until I tell it not to be red anymore.

There will be about 4 or 5 catagories with 4 or 5 pages of links in each catagory.

What do I need?

[Submerge]

Never heard of a script of that nature so you'd have to get it created custom.
You can check Hotscripts or SourceForge to double-check though.

[Andrew]

Yeah, I agree with Submerge, I doubt there is one like this that is out there for free. You would be better off hiring a programmer to either create one from scratch or modify an existing one.

[rjp]

Obviously nothing like this exists right out of the box, so I think he's asking what he needs to use to create something like this.

Personally I'd say use Perl or PHP with a SQL database (like MySQL) to do this for you. If you're running on a UNIX box it's fairly easy to get a calendar to display correctly that's tied into the database.

Also, you can use the database to store the link information with a date that will specify when it's no longer valid to be shown. You can build categories and whatever else you need into the database (including user accounts).

I've found creating custom pages for Wordpress that tie into the database it uses makes things fairly easy (you don't have to start from scratch for a given site) so you might want to look there.

[darkcrunk]

Wait lemme check my script dir :P

Since its all about links .. i think you should take in some of the free ( or premium ) affiliate or linkexchange scripts around :) .. search for it in google, I am sure you would hit up something nice.