There are some thing you need to do as preparations before you can start the tutorial. This page will walk you through them:
You may place your files in any folder you like as long as your localhost can find and process them. When using WAMP that folder is by default C:\wamp\www\. If you have any other configuration on your computer you need to find them out. You may call your CMS whatever you like (it won't affect the code). In the example I've choosen to call it atsumerugamer. I recommend that you create a folder in your localhost-folder with the name you choose. In that folder you then create a folder tree like shown in the picture below:
If you don't feel comfortable with those folder names you may change them as you see fit. However, if you do so you must keep track of your own changes since this is the folder tree I will use in the tutorial.
The database files will be stored elsewhere on your computer. Where that is varies and is up to your localhost server. I'm using WAMP Server 2.0 and my database files are found in the C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.0.45\data\-folder. Your database files may be stored elsewhere. If you can't find them you're in no real distress, since you don't really need to know, as long as things work the way they should.
We are now going to create the database itself. I've choosen to call it atsumerugamer. This name is very important since it's used to connect to the database so if you change this name you must keep that in mind when you're reading the tutorial and replace my atsumerugamer with whatever you choosed to call your database.
Below is the SQL-syntax that is used with MySQL to create this database. I strongly recommend that you launch PHPMyAdmin and have it running at all times. Make sure that you local server is running! There are two ways you can create the database: Either you click on the SQL-button below the PHPMyAdmin logo and enter the syntax manually (or pasting it), OR you can use the Create Database-field at the home-page of PHPMyAdmin. Make yourself familiar with how I present the code below. This is how SQL-syntaxes will be presented from now on.
CREATE DATABASE `atsumerugamer` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
The tables in the database will be created as we proceed with the tutorial. Note that this tutorial is in a constant state of change. New fields within the tables are created or deleted, renamed or whatever to match the progress of the CMS-build. Therefore I urge you to keep track of the update dates presented at the Index-page. If a page previous to where you are in the tutorial has been updated I recommend that you take a look at that page to see if there has been any changes that might effect the pages you have before you.
Next up: Creating the database connection-file.