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A Beginner to Coding?
- Thread starter .Joe.
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References are the best start to learning it on your own (In My Opinion):
http://www.mysql.org (Use their search to look up a specific thing, IE: search for CREATE TABLE.)
http://www.php.net/manual/en/indexes.php (Function Index)
http://www.w3schools.com/ (For other stuff like HTML, CSS and JS.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET - ASP.NET Article
http://www.postgresql.org/ - PostgreSQL Website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database - Oracle DB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TxtSQL - Txt SQL (Might be needed for MyUPB.)
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Your question is vauge, because there aren't just PHP Message Board softwares (IE: Snitz Forum), and not all forum softwares use MySQL.
You also may have been talking about creating stuff for a remote host (like invisionfree), if that's the case, none of this should help; and you're better off going to the invisionfree support forums.
http://www.mysql.org (Use their search to look up a specific thing, IE: search for CREATE TABLE.)
http://www.php.net/manual/en/indexes.php (Function Index)
http://www.w3schools.com/ (For other stuff like HTML, CSS and JS.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET - ASP.NET Article
http://www.postgresql.org/ - PostgreSQL Website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database - Oracle DB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TxtSQL - Txt SQL (Might be needed for MyUPB.)
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Your question is vauge, because there aren't just PHP Message Board softwares (IE: Snitz Forum), and not all forum softwares use MySQL.
You also may have been talking about creating stuff for a remote host (like invisionfree), if that's the case, none of this should help; and you're better off going to the invisionfree support forums.
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This is what I want to learn to do.
Tizag is a very well built site. I used it to learn PHP and Javascript:
http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/
http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/
Like jonny said, it depends on the forum.
For example, if you have IPB 1.3 or earlier, you may need to know some PHP to change certain parts of the templates. (2.0 caches, soooo... if you have that you need to turn of cache'ing and have IPB get template data direct from the files, to change stuff you can't change via the ACP templating system. Don't know if it can do that though, phpBB3 has a setting to do that.)
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if your using a script with a templating engine, none. You'll need to get familier with the scripts syntax, but the documentation on its site should cover this. It's good to know javascript - I suggest using mootools http://mootools.net/ so you can avoid having to do heaps of complex coding.
Getting proficient in css is a must. I've always gone to sites like cssbeauty.com and just read the articles - you pick stuff up through osmosis.
Getting proficient in css is a must. I've always gone to sites like cssbeauty.com and just read the articles - you pick stuff up through osmosis.
But both phpBB3 and IPB 2 have templating engines, and you still may need to know that stuff.
Also learning how the Smarty template engine works is good too. I know WoltLab BB3 uses the smarty template engine, almost all scripts these days do, but you still need to learn the var's for all different scripts, like {@RELATIVE_WBB_DIR} in WoltLab is the path to the icon folder, whereas another script could have {@PATH_TO_ICON} etc.
edit: also, I agree with Tizag, also using http://www.learnphpfree.com is good too.
edit: also, I agree with Tizag, also using http://www.learnphpfree.com is good too.
PHP.
But dont be suprised if it takes you 6-9 months of learning before you are able to even consider starting a project as big as a billing system
Oh, no don't worry. I expect even longer. Well I just started learning PHP, and I just made a log-in form, just a simple PHP log-in form. So it has no sessions or cookies. I honestly just started learning PHP today, the code I created is:
Do you think I'm on the right track on progressing through and learning PHP?
I'm getting a pretty good understanding on variables, 'if' and 'else' statements, and echo's, etc. I already had a good understand of HTML.
Can anyone explain 'GET' and 'POST' statements a bit more to me?
Code:
<html>
<head />
<body>
<form action="index.php"method=POST>
Username: <input type=text name=user><br />
Password: <input type=password name=pass><br />
<input type=submit value="OK!"><p>
</form>
<?php
$user=$_POST('user');
$pass=$_POST('pass');
if (($user==".Joe. && ($pass=="MyPass")) echo "Access Granted"
else echo "Access Denied!";
?>
</body>
</html>I'm getting a pretty good understanding on variables, 'if' and 'else' statements, and echo's, etc. I already had a good understand of HTML.
Can anyone explain 'GET' and 'POST' statements a bit more to me?
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$_GET is an array of all data passed through the URL. eg:
mydomain.com?var1=hello&var2=world
if in the page you put print_r (print everything in an array) you would get this:
array(
[var1] => hello
[var2] => world
)
the array all this data is held in is $_GET
for $_POST it works the same way, except the variables are passed when a user submits a form.
<form name='form' action='post.php' method='post'>
<input type='text' name='Name'>
</form>
when submitted to post.php you could access the data put into the "Name" input like so: $_POST['Name']
neat eh?
Remember, when dealing with user input you MUST clean it first:
so:
$username = addslashes(striptags($_POST['username']));
for example.
You talked earlier about creating a control panel. You'll need to be doing incredibly advanced stuff for that.
mydomain.com?var1=hello&var2=world
if in the page you put print_r (print everything in an array) you would get this:
array(
[var1] => hello
[var2] => world
)
the array all this data is held in is $_GET
for $_POST it works the same way, except the variables are passed when a user submits a form.
<form name='form' action='post.php' method='post'>
<input type='text' name='Name'>
</form>
when submitted to post.php you could access the data put into the "Name" input like so: $_POST['Name']
neat eh?
Remember, when dealing with user input you MUST clean it first:
so:
$username = addslashes(striptags($_POST['username']));
for example.
You talked earlier about creating a control panel. You'll need to be doing incredibly advanced stuff for that.
As well as DHTML if you want menus to animate (IE: flyout and stuff)
Okay, I'm trying to make a more serious log-in/authentication script but I'm going to have to use mySQL. I don't have alot of knowledge in this. I've made my database in mySQL, called Login, now I have to make a table also called login...now I made a table with 3 fields but I can't seem to figure out how to make the 1st field's 'type' an ID type? Anyone know what I'm talking about? And for the 2nd, and 3rd fields I want to make them user and pass types.
