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Really Need Help

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:03 am
by ravenknight
Sorry if i have put this in the wrong forum but i am new and do not know my way around here that good yet, now i really want to learn php but for some reason i am having a very hard time understanding it, i basically know html and css and i could make a simple website from that but i would like to add things to the website that html and css cant do, and i am wondering if their is anyone out their that would be willing to help me understand php and explain it to me in layman’s terms? i have done a few tutorials on php online but they only basically tell me to "copy this in this directory and put that in another directory" and it has worked but if the code ever breaks i would not understand how to fix it, that is why i want to understand how the code works instead of just copying and pasting, so if anyone would be willing to help me learn php i would appreciate it. Thanks...

Re: Really Need Help

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:35 am
by onion2k
Moved to volunteer work.

I suggest you look for some tutorials that are a little more advanced than the ones you've found so far. Or take the scripts you've copied and run, and change things to see what happens. They'll break, no doubt about that, but that's a good thing. You can learn from that. Work out what breaks when you change different things. That'll teach you what each bit does.

Also, spend some time reading the PHP manual on php.net - especially the user comments. They're a great way to learn about different functions (that you'll see when you're editing the scripts you copied).

Re: Really Need Help

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:37 pm
by ravenknight
Thank you for the information about that site...

also i was wondering if anyone could give me an example of a very easy script like a form script that just has a name, e-mail and message section and explain exactly what the code does piece by piece. if not could someone tell me a website that will, but not a site with complicated explanations?

also thanks again for that website you told me about...

Re: Really Need Help

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:38 pm
by ravenknight
Come on guys don't everybody post at once i can't read all of your posts. lol!