Learn PHP

[Microcyb]

This is for Newbees trying their hand at PHP.
I know this is for Yabb{*COUGH*COUGH*} simplemachines forum, but you can learn a lot from trying your hand at PHP.
http://www.hotscripts.com/?RID=128439
Hotscript is a cool site to learn the newest and coolest PHP stuff on the net.
http://www.microcyb.com/?m=c&c=36
This is my personal tutorials to help teach people a few things about PHP, and MySQL.

If you other have stuff to post, like cool sites you should add them to the list.

[Microcyb]

Of course I am looking for people to ask for more tutorials.
I have been writting them as people request.

As Jeff knows I have been writting PHP scripts left right and backwards to learn everything I can.

So if you want to learn something tell me, and I will find a way to do it, and publish what I find on my site.

[Seph|roth]

So if you want to learn something tell me, and I will find a way to do it, and publish what I find on my site.

don't say that... i'm in desperate need to learn php...

so am I ... but where to start  * confused *

My problem is.. a lot of site offer newbie tutorials.. but they're all too basic and all the same, learning you how to declare a variable and what a string is etc.. i'm really past that.

But it's really hard to find tutorials that take it up from that point, it seems like you can only find really basic tut's and very profession tut's 

[Seph|roth]

im just gonna get a book for 40 smackers, and sit in bed for days and learn

1st of all: practice makes perfect > so don't go sit in bed or you'll never learn it  (well, err.. unless you have your comp in your bed LOL  )

2nd: errrr .. i forgot  dammit

[Seph|roth]

no kidding... so you basically live in your bed  that must be convenient 

[Aquilo]

The thing is... my computer basically is in my bed 

hehe I gata get my bed back out of storage! My desk and char are so comfortable
for me my desk and char for my computer and me , a couch, tv stand and tv, and dresser makeup the most I need for my bedroom

befor I got marred I didn't have room for a bed with all that and my huge Italian drafting table so I slept in my computer char. I miss my computer char.

[eFishie]

Nice tutorials, but I didn't see one for PHP frames. You know what I mean, a single web page that has a URL like index.php?page=contact.

And it pulls content from contact.txt.

I think that would be handy (even though I know how already).

[Aquilo]

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<?php
include("header.php");
switch($_REQUEST["page"])
{
   case ("contact") :
      include("contact.txt");
   break;
   case ("extras") :
      include("extras.txt");
   break;
   default :
      include("index.txt");
   break;
}
include("footer.php");
?>


I think this is one of the first things you figure out when you learn php
actualy aquilo.ionichost.com was the first php site I ever worked with
since they have free php hosting, and the first thing I started looking at was how they made the sites with index.php?page=contact.

I'm shure not everone learns this first but it's still "all too basic" 

[Seph|roth]

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<?php
include("header.php");
switch($_REQUEST["page"])
{
   case ("contact") :
      include("contact.txt");
   break;
   case ("extras") :
      include("extras.txt");
   break;
   default :
      include("index.txt");
   break;
}
include("footer.php");
?>


I think this is one of the first things you figure out when you learn php
actualy aquilo.ionichost.com was the first php site I ever worked with
since they have free php hosting, and the first thing I started looking at was how they made the sites with index.php?page=contact.

I'm shure not everone learns this first but it's still "all too basic" 

Thanks, i was looking for how to do that  But.. the .txt files.. why? can't they be html/php files?

[Overseer]

^ funnily i just replanned my site revamp around such a scheme.. be back to pinch this when at home tonight

and Seph|roth there is no reason whatsover...

[Wezz6400]

Thanks, i was looking for how to do that  But.. the .txt files.. why? can't they be html/php files?

I think it doesn't matter, PHP treats them as a .php file just as any other php file. You could even call them contact.seph I think, but I haven't tried it out though.

BTW, I'm gonna read those tut's for sure, I've been telling everybody that it's time for me to seriously learn php for ages now. I'm gonna write some scripts to learn I think. Maybe a news/blogscript evolving into a message board. Don't worry though, it won't be a SMF competitor 'cause I won't release it.

[Overseer]

myself i'm just using it to simplify the layout and management of my site...

why make almost identical 10 pages with one section that changes

when u can have 1 script with a partial template, and passing a parameter changes the section u want

for me and what i've learned.. for a 'normal' site managing repeated content, for stuff like site headers, banners etc etc its changed the way i'm thinkin now

[eFishie]

Holy crap, that's a long PHP Frame script, check mine out:

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<?
$default="main";
if ($page=="") {
  $page=$default;
}
$pagetoopen="$page.txt";
$contents=file_get_contents($pagetoopen);
print "$contents";
?>

[Aquilo]

Holy crap, that's a long PHP Frame script, check mine out:

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<?
$default="main";
if ($page=="") {
  $page=$default;
}
$pagetoopen="$page.txt";
$contents=file_get_contents($pagetoopen);
print "$contents";
?>

but what if you want to have some $php_var on those pages? not to mention all those if,elseif,else statments if you need more then 2 pages for your site and if you did only need 2 pages I would do something like:

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<?php
echo file_get_contents((empty($_REQUEST["page"]) ? "main" : "about_me") . '.txt');
?>

[eFishie]

Mine works, dammit!


Anyways, what do you mean, Aq?

[Aquilo]

hehe! messing around

[[Unknown]]

Mine works, dammit!


Anyways, what do you mean, Aq?

It's also very insecure .

-[Unknown]

[eFishie]

Insecure? How?

You're joshin' me!

[Aquilo]

oh [unknown] is always so right!
$page could be a system file or something.

[[Unknown]]

oh [unknown] is always so right!

I don't deserve such high praise - and I am so very often wrong too.

-[Unknown]