I need a PHP script that can show files / file names in a table or column. Customizable too. Can you supply me with a tutorial link, the script, or other helpful means of helping me solve my problem?

I have an html site and I want to make a forum section on my site, but I don’t know how to make user accounts yet so for now I want to make a forums section on the site, but I don’t know how to. How can I do this? And if you know how, please tell me how to allow user accounts.

Okay, in Web Design, I was tought that to make an html page, it had to be saved as a plain text document…..but on my computer..I can’t save things as plain text….My only options are:
Rich Text Format
Text Document
Text Document-MS-DOS Format
Unicode Text Document
Which one do I use if I want to make a page using html codes??

I have a web page that i want users to search. Is there some html code that i could use that would make a simple search?

I’m teaching myself Visual Basic from a book just now. I know that many websites are made using HTML coding, and web design is something which maybe interests me in the future.
What I’m asking is if there is a difference between HTML and Visual Basic, and if so how much of it is different? Like if I wanted to start coding things like websites once I was done with Visual Basic how much more would I need to learn?