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Hello.
As you may already know, I've been having a tinker with PHP recently, but to be honest, I'm getting no where in terms of making something that's actually useful, you know what I mean?
I've been through many tutorials which are just variations on "Hello World" or "Hello Earth!", "Hello Globe", "Hello Universe" - it's getting quite labourous, and most of the code seems exceptionally similar to C programming which I've been doing for quite some time now.
I was wondering if anyone could give me any "fun stuff" to do with the language, you know, like a small project or something to get my teeth into. A lot of you will state something to do with databases I'd imagine, but I want to stick to the bottom end of the spectrum for now, MySQL and everything can come later.
Thanks
As you may already know, I've been having a tinker with PHP recently, but to be honest, I'm getting no where in terms of making something that's actually useful, you know what I mean?
I've been through many tutorials which are just variations on "Hello World" or "Hello Earth!", "Hello Globe", "Hello Universe" - it's getting quite labourous, and most of the code seems exceptionally similar to C programming which I've been doing for quite some time now.
I was wondering if anyone could give me any "fun stuff" to do with the language, you know, like a small project or something to get my teeth into. A lot of you will state something to do with databases I'd imagine, but I want to stick to the bottom end of the spectrum for now, MySQL and everything can come later.
Thanks
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A maybe.
:P
I've only just got to grips with learning the language, and I have a feeling this image thing will take some time to do!
:P
I've only just got to grips with learning the language, and I have a feeling this image thing will take some time to do!
Is that a “No” then, gamesfreak?
I'm working on one at the moment. I'll let you know how it turns out - it's the first CMS I've done and I'm linking it in with credit card payment as well.
Im just learning PHP/SQL, i am trying to write a CMS for my new site.
I dont have enough time, that sucks :(
I dont have enough time, that sucks :(
About a year ago I was really good at PHP - came to do some fairly complex programming this year and realised I'd forgotten sooooo much! Eeeek!
Yeah, I sort of know the process (I used to program dBase, FoxPro and then Clipper for a living), but I'm not so hot at learning new stuff - it takes me a while to absorb things.
I'm currently getting through CSS and having lots of fun!
I'm currently getting through CSS and having lots of fun!
It's not very hard to do - it just uses a fairly good range of PHP concepts. You have to read the directory to get a file listing, look at the file attributes, sort them by date, parse the title from the top 5, and echo them in the format you produced.
I was gonna do it myself, but then I realised I know nothing about PHP apart from the "include" command ...
That's a nice little starter script - brings in a few different areas of PHP.
Write me a script that'll find the titles and URLs of the last 5 amended pages on my site and output the results like ...
Title 1
Title 2
...
... with the newest at the top. It needs to be able to skip certain files and discard part of the title (all my page titles are in the format "TIMMARGH!.net - ...").
I'd be willing to donate an amount to your favourite charity as payment.
...
... with the newest at the top. It needs to be able to skip certain files and discard part of the title (all my page titles are in the format "TIMMARGH!.net - ...").
I'd be willing to donate an amount to your favourite charity as payment.
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