I've decided to use PHP...mainly because its open source (didnt really understand what that meant until recently). I like the idea of not having to steal...
I think PHP will be used to do basically two things on my site:
-The dynamic contact list I mentioned earlier in http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4128
-And to create a "report usefulness" button. A button that can be pushed to tell me if the person liked the page or not. Probably just a yes or no thing...maybe i will log the ISP, because most people viewing it will be from a college, and I'll have a pretty good idea which of my friends it is.
I think I will be going with MySQL as the database format...only because it seems to be the only one that anyone mentions; must be good enough. I think I'm starting to get some of the details of this down.
AND NOW MY QUESTION!
At http://www.php.net/tut.php "Just create your .php3 files and put them in your web directory and the server will magically parse them for you. There is no need to compile anything nor do you need to install any extra tools. "
Well...I'm *lost*. What do I while I'm making the webpage? I dont want to have to pay for a webhost for the 3 months or so that it will probably take me to learn all this... and as I've discovered, if you load "helloworld.php3" (your average first tutorial, first project program) into IE, it does absolutely nothing. And I read a tutorial on MySQL at http://www.awtrey.com/support/dbeweb/ and it keeps on mentioning the command line...again, I'm missing something. Don't I need some sort of developmental program? Something to test out my work on?
I know this probably sounds veerrry stupid to everyone here, but its just an odd concept to me. I really want to test out my 'helloworld' program, and I cant...i've got no idea if i did it right.
I'm hoping there is some sort of personal web server program i can load onto my computer.
Kurt
P.S. Is Apache a version of Linux?
I think PHP will be used to do basically two things on my site:
-The dynamic contact list I mentioned earlier in http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4128
-And to create a "report usefulness" button. A button that can be pushed to tell me if the person liked the page or not. Probably just a yes or no thing...maybe i will log the ISP, because most people viewing it will be from a college, and I'll have a pretty good idea which of my friends it is.
I think I will be going with MySQL as the database format...only because it seems to be the only one that anyone mentions; must be good enough. I think I'm starting to get some of the details of this down.
AND NOW MY QUESTION!
At http://www.php.net/tut.php "Just create your .php3 files and put them in your web directory and the server will magically parse them for you. There is no need to compile anything nor do you need to install any extra tools. "
Well...I'm *lost*. What do I while I'm making the webpage? I dont want to have to pay for a webhost for the 3 months or so that it will probably take me to learn all this... and as I've discovered, if you load "helloworld.php3" (your average first tutorial, first project program) into IE, it does absolutely nothing. And I read a tutorial on MySQL at http://www.awtrey.com/support/dbeweb/ and it keeps on mentioning the command line...again, I'm missing something. Don't I need some sort of developmental program? Something to test out my work on?
I know this probably sounds veerrry stupid to everyone here, but its just an odd concept to me. I really want to test out my 'helloworld' program, and I cant...i've got no idea if i did it right.
I'm hoping there is some sort of personal web server program i can load onto my computer.
Kurt
P.S. Is Apache a version of Linux?