Geeklog Forums

I currently have a webpage ( http://www.tourney.com/tournament-poker-rankings.html ) that is just html. As you can see, it's a huge list of information that includes names, numbers, $$$ amounts, etc. I'd like to have this info able to be sorted by clicking on a column kind of like this page: http://www.cardplayer.com/player_of_the_year/index.php?order_by=amount&year=2005 .

The CardPlayer page is in php. It seems like this is the best way to go rather than creating multiple html pages that sort the data a different way. Currently the raw data is just in an Excel spreadsheet.

How do I go about creating these php pages? I'm a total php newb. I think I have to use some type of database for the php to pull the data from too. Is this SQL? Anyways, I'd appreciate any help I can get, or just a point in the right direction regarding resources. Thanks.