[PHP-WIN] data entry form - php or something more robust?

[Marlene Burckhalter]

hello I'm new at php (XP, PHP, MYSQL, APACHE). My dilema is whether php is robust enough to insert data collected from a html form into a mysql database, and then display the same html form to the user again and again for continous entry of records. Another twist is that some of the data should only have to be entered once by the user, but still be inserted into the database for each record that is posted. Has anyone done this with php?  Or do I need to find a programmer? Marlene