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gurus, masters
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 lingh0e |
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Subject: "Attention - PHP
gurus, masters
and
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Posted: @ 2:12 am on Mar 14 2007 |
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Member #: 291
Rank: User - (29)
Since: 03/02/07
Posts: 29
From: Ohio
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I am just
beginning to
learn PHP. By
"learn&quo
t;, I mean
"googleing
and sifting
through other
people's
scripts and
tutorials to
find what it is
I am looking
for".
I have read a
few books about
the language.
I'm sure there
are more than a
few PHP related
courses I could
take at my
local college.
Don't get me
wrong, I know
it take a lot
more than that
to become good
at it, but the
most efficient
way for me,
personally, to
pick up the
language, is by
doing.
For example: I
just spent the
past day trying
to teach myself
how to print a
string of
database
queries as
requested by a
form. I spent
hours moving
quotation marks
around until I
had the syntax
just right...
and the first
time I got it
to work... it
felt really
great.
But on to my
point:
I think I would
learn the
fundamentals of
PHP a lot
faster if a few
of the masters
would drill
me... give me
homework...
assign me a
simple task
that will force
me to learn
about a new
aspect of the
language.
Any chance
anyone feels up
to that?
Give me an
assignment...
something
relatively
basic, but
something I
will need to
know how to do
time and time
again if I ever
want to get the
hang of
this.
I know it
sounds corny,
but I'd really
like to give
this a shot.
Feel free to
kick me if I
get annoying |
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| bs0d |
| Subject: "re: Attention -
PHP gurus,
masters ..."
Posted: @ 7:08 am on Mar 14 2007
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Member #: 1
Rank: Admin. - (1,495)
Since: 02/05/05
Posts: 590
From: USA
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I know what
you're
saying... and
you can answer
your own
questions by
looking around
at what is most
commonly
available.
In other words,
off the top of
my head - here
is a list of
ideas in no
particular
order that
every php
programmer has
most likely
coded at some
point in time:
- Comment
s Script
- Poll /
Voting
- Forums
, including
BBCode
- Member
s System #
Random Stuff
(quotes, links,
ect.)
- Managm
ent System -
some sort of
managment of a
database -
forms to add,
delete, modify
- Mailin
g
List
- Im
ages and
Graphs
That should be
enough to get
you thinking
about where to
go next.
Edited at 07:18:30 am on 03/14/07
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| gravy |
| Subject: "re: Attention -
PHP gurus,
masters ..."
Posted: @ 9:12 am on Mar 14 2007
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Member #: 294
Rank: User - (63)
Since: 03/06/07
Posts: 66
From: MN
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we all know I
am not a
Master, a Guru
or any other
name that puts
a php programer
at the zenith
of the
language.
but i did
wonder why
there was never
a php test that
could be done
online.
what i do now,
is write the
code try to get
it to work for
hours
sometimes, and
then I ask the
guys here for
help. when i
get help I
study what they
have told me,
to what I was
doing, make the
changes in my
head, and
viola! The code
works! And most
of all I have
learned
something.
Photo Hosting
Scripts? It's
what I do.... |
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| ki |
| Subject: "re: Attention -
PHP gurus,
masters ..."
Posted: @ 12:21 pm on Mar 15 2007
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Member #: 204
Rank: User - (50)
Since: 09/16/06
Posts: 53
From: Florida
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gravy
said...
<
i>
we all know I
am not a
Master, a Guru
or any other
name that puts
a php programer
at the zenith
of the
language.
but i did
wonder why
there was never
a php test that
could be done
online.
what i do now,
is write the
code try to get
it to work for
hours
sometimes, and
then I ask the
guys here for
help. when i
get help I
study what they
have told me,
to what I was
doing, make the
changes in my
head, and
viola! The code
works! And most
of all I have
learned
something.
hmmm, i believe
your trying to
say why not a
test like how
in dreamweaver
it tests the
html,
simple....
because PHP is
decoded using a
program, it
would require
to much ram to
run it over and
over again like
dreamweaver
does with html,
is that what
your asking
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| bs0d |
| Subject: "re: Attention -
PHP gurus,
masters ..."
Posted: @ 3:03 pm on Mar 15 2007
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Member #: 1
Rank: Admin. - (1,495)
Since: 02/05/05
Posts: 590
From: USA
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To test PHP,
many people
install PHP,
MySQL and
whatever else
you want on an
APACHE server.
You run APACHE
locally and
test your
scripts before
uploading them
to your
'live'
site.
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| gravy |
| Subject: "re: Attention -
PHP gurus,
masters ..."
Posted: @ 3:57 pm on Mar 15 2007
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Member #: 294
Rank: User - (63)
Since: 03/06/07
Posts: 66
From: MN
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bs0d
said...
<
i>
To test PHP,
many people
install PHP,
MySQL and
whatever else
you want on an
APACHE server.
You run APACHE
locally and
test your
scripts before
uploading them
to your
'live' site.
Yup I have
always wanted
to do just what
you said there,
but have never
had the, my I
say,
BALLS to
risk my
computer doing
so. I have read
documentation
on how to do it
but it all
seems pretty
vage. Not clear
enough for me
to risk my
machine.
Photo Hosting
Scripts? It's
what I do.... |
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| bs0d |
| Subject: "re: Attention -
PHP gurus,
masters ..."
Posted: @ 4:37 pm on Mar 15 2007
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Member #: 1
Rank: Admin. - (1,495)
Since: 02/05/05
Posts: 590
From: USA
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I've also
considered a
tutorial to
install Apache
+ PHP + MySQL;
maybe I will
work on that
after the
upload image
article.
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| misterhaan |
| Subject: "re: Attention -
PHP gurus,
masters ..."
Posted: @ 11:21 am on Mar 19 2007
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Member #: 5
Rank: User - (206)
Since: 02/10/05
Posts: 141
From: chair
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i just set up
apache/mysql/ph
p on my laptop
so i could give
a demo of a
site i'm
working on even
if there's no
internet
connection . .
. everything
works fine
except after a
few minutes i
get a
connection
reset error and
then i have to
restart the
machine to get
it to stop
turning
localhost into
www.localhost.c
om . . .
it's newer
versions of
everything than
what i have on
my linux
machine that i
use for testing
at home, so
i'm guessing
that has
something to do
with it.
please note
that the above
post is likely
made up in its
entirety. |
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