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Hey everyone. I'm fairly new to php. I've only read about 3 books, "PHP for the World Wide Web", "PHP and MySql for the World Wide Web" and "PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web", all by Larry Ullman. I have to say, they are excellent books.

Moving on. I have a hard time starting a project, because for some reason I stop not even half way.. I stop at the first page. I don't know what it is, it's just that I stop. I want to finish it, but I don't like getting started.

So I was wondering if anyone would like to post an assignment I could do. I'm fairly new, so if you ask me to code a google image search engine it'll definitely be too much for me to do, but if someone could suggest some cool script I could do, I'll do it.

For example: Someone earlier had me do a script that grabs the links off a website, and outputs it on the page. Each link however had to be made so that if you clicked it, the script grabbed the links off that linked you just clicked. It was fun doing this script, and I learned a lot. That's why I want to do more, so I can increase my knowledge.

Thanks :)
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Moved to PHP - Code.
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Sorry, I was reading the descriptions of the forums and I didn't see this fitting as a question, so I put it elsewhere.

So, what's a good assignment?
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i was the same as you not long ago. i first made a simple shoutbox using a flat text file, then i threw in a few small extras like a remember me button, and smilies. then make a admin section and its some good practice all around.

after that i made a news script running on mysql for storing the news and the admins uernames then i made a comments section that was stored in flat text files. this project was the most fun for me, because there is so much to take into consideration such as how to make sure the news, full news, and comments (that were completly seperate from the database) all corespond with eachother. there is so much you can do with a news script that i think its ur best choice for somthing to practice on. if you would like a little kick in the rite direction then give me a pm and ill show u how i got started.
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Post by feyd »

don't worry about posting this in the wrong forum, just don't make a habit out of it ;) :P

I'm not one to give out assignments.. I'm a horrible "homework" teacher. I will gladly explain pretty much anything you want to ask about though.. just ask around :mrgreen:

If you'd like we could read through and critique your methods on your first project.

Something I will suggest is participating in code questions, maybe not visibly, but trying to solve the problem along with the rest of us. :) This is one area where I learned a lot in the first week or so of starting with this language.. and more so when I started playing with databases.
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The first real project I ever did was a news script with add, edit and delete functions. It ran off of a database and had such stuff as the title, news, and date. It was fun, practical, and I learned a whole lot.
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I am still in the process of learning PHP through a project I am working on :) it is a database that keeps track of Projects for this company (I am being paid XD) and it is a lot of fun and has tought me a lot ;)

I highly recommend starting with just a simple database manager and working from there on expanding it with admin areas... users... multiple database... templates... because that is what I have done :)
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I made a shoutbox, check it out http://www.hypekillers.com. I made it myself, it's pretty cool(To me it'll be cool since I made it).
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Why don't you help someone out over at the Volunteer Forum? I am sure they will appreciate your work and you have a real-life assignment.
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Oh wow, I didn't even notice that board. I'll definitely help out.
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