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Any projects need help?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:11 am
by Hightower
I've been coding PHP for a few months now, and am starting to get really comfortable with it. I've done a couple of projects, 1 for uni, another for work but now I want experience of working as part of a team.
Does anybody have any projects, no matter how easy (or hard) that I can help out with?
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:14 am
by jaoudestudios
You have a good attitude, getting involved in a project is a great way to learn.
If you're still interested in a few months, I might be starting another opensource project.
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:24 am
by Hightower
Thanks
At the moment I'm classed as an IT Technician, and I don't get to code on a daily basis at work. I do want to be a programmer (in my line of work) and I am currently going to uni part time to get a degree in programming.
I'm pretty pleased with how my projects have gone, but it doesn't feel "real-life" because I was working alone. I would love the opportunity to work with others purely for experience. I find there's no better way to learn than looking over somebodies shoulder and giving it a go. My code is by no means perfect and I don't have any where near 2% of the answers, but I really hope to improve by working with a good group of people with a common goal.
Also, with working in education I use open source daily, and I would love to give something back.
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:36 am
by jaoudestudios
IT Techinician, windows or linux? What does it involve?
Doing a part-time degree while working shows commitment, so well done!
What are the links to your projects so far?
What other languages do you know apart from php? html, css, js, jquery, zend framework, mysql...
How is your OOP in php?
Are you familiar with SVN (subversion)? Great version control system.
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:51 am
by Hightower
jaoudestudios wrote:IT Techinician, windows or linux? What does it involve?
Doing a part-time degree while working shows commitment, so well done!
What are the links to your projects so far?
What other languages do you know apart from php? html, css, js, jquery, zend framework, mysql...
How is your OOP in php?
Are you familiar with SVN (subversion)? Great version control system.
I'm an IT Technician at a secondary school in the North East. It's mainly Windows machines, but I do use Ubuntu Server for web servers, and FreeNAS for our NAS boxes.
The project that I have done for work is a front end system to work with Squid (for internet filtering). It can be seen at
http://whitelist.tanfieldschool.co.uk, but be warned that functionality is limited without a login so you won't see most of what it can do.
I would say PHP is the most familiar language to me. I know HTML and CSS, although I'm not graphically minded so don't expect works of art from me! I know some scripting languages (C++, VB), but only as much as I've done at uni - I haven't bothered to develop these skills further. I have also started to learn Ruby. I don't know anything about JS, jquery or the Zend framework, and only know a little MySQL (use it with PHP but I know that it's much more powerful than what I've done with it so far).
It's funny how I got into PHP - we haven't been asked to use it at college, it's just a language that I started with and fell in love with.
I'm not familiar with SVN either I'm afraid, but definately willing to pick this kind of thing up. My OOP is one of the things I want to develop. We're learning it at uni at the minute, but mainly in theory. I kind of have my head around it but need a real-life project to be able to try it out on (and get help when I need it

).
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:52 am
by jaoudestudios
I'm an IT Technician at a secondary school in the North East. It's mainly Windows machines, but I do use Ubuntu Server for web servers, and FreeNAS for our NAS boxes.
Good, so you do have some experience in a linux environment. I am by far not an expert, but I know what I currently need to and learn accordingly.
It's funny how I got into PHP - we haven't been asked to use it at college, it's just a language that I started with and fell in love with.
I am the same, I found php to be a great language and I love developing applications with it.
I'm not familiar with SVN either I'm afraid, but definately willing to pick this kind of thing up
Dont worry svn is easy to pick up, and immediately you will see the great benefits - rolling back, branching etc...
I kind of have my head around it but need a real-life project to be able to try it out on (and get help when I need it

).
Definitely, the best way to learn is a real life project and to get a helping hand as required - thats the way we all learn
I have recently started using Zend Framework to build my php applications and it is amazing. I definitely recommend looking into Zend Framework. Plus it will really help your OOP as it is all object orientated.
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 10:02 am
by Hightower
Thanks for your help. So what have you got lined up that you may need help with?
P.S. Looking into Zend now

Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:45 am
by jaoudestudios
Currently I am working on an Online Agile Task Board v1.
After that...I have many project ideas, but need to think which one is best.
Let me know how you get on with Zend, as my projects are built using the full MVC framework.
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:01 pm
by Hightower
jaoudestudios wrote:Let me know how you get on with Zend, as my projects are built using the full MVC framework.
Will do

Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 10:42 pm
by jdh1972
I have a small project that you could help with. Here is our website.
http://Cyclingnutz.com
We are using Joomla and could use some modification done to a few parts of the site. We have a test site so that you can break things. Let me know if this would interest you.
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:03 am
by Hightower
jdh1972 wrote:I have a small project that you could help with. Here is our website.
http://Cyclingnutz.com
We are using Joomla and could use some modification done to a few parts of the site. We have a test site so that you can break things. Let me know if this would interest you.
What kind of ideas have you got in the pipeline for it?
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 10:02 am
by jdh1972
I guess the most pressing things are working on some small plugins. We use Jom Social as our user interface. There are a few other components that we would like to use instead of the features pre-installed in Jom Social. Two that come to mind are the photos and messaging components. You would probably want to visit
http://joomla.org and read up on how to make a plugin. We can discuss the details of how it would function if you want to have a crack at it.
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 4:31 pm
by floriauck
hey hightower,
I am web designer and front end coder (xhtml/css). I am doing a project for a friend and it requires a jquery auto complete search field. The jquery is easy to add and I can get to the point where the auto complete reads from a local file. However, I have to connect to a database in order to get the data and display the results. I have no clue how to connect the php to the database. I actually have a sample script (includes all the js, html files, and even a php file) but am still unable to do anything with it because i have 0 experience with php.
If this is something that sounds interesting to you, let me know if you are willing to help out.
thanks,
kindly,
Florian
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 7:46 am
by jaoudestudios
Hightower,
how are you getting on? what do you think of Zend FrameWork?
Re: Any projects need help?
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 3:47 am
by Hightower
jaoudestudios wrote:Hightower,
how are you getting on? what do you think of Zend FrameWork?
I'm struggling to get my head around Zend, but will keep cracking with it....
