Where now?
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:02 am
I am pretty much a complete newbie to PHP. I've spent an intensive month following O'reilly's PHP and MySQL guide, and understand the basic concepts and what blocks of code do, if not exactly individual lines of code.
The reason I started this project was because a friend who designs websites (graphics/ architecture) always needs someone to do the PHP programming. The PHP is used primarily for backoffice. I was discussing with him what he needs, he explained simply for an Administator to be able to change the home page image, change menu page images, add pages, add menu items etc easily, while there are many tutorials for creating passwords/ checking forms/etc etc, these are all written completely in PHP.
My friend works in actionscript, but always gives his PHP programmer an XML file to work from, this gives me a headache trying to conceptually understand the steps I need to go from when working with a website that already exists. The current project has one title page, and 5 submenus, everything is static.
So what I'm really looking for is some advice on my next steps. Most tutorials assume that you are buliding the whole site in PHP. How do we work on a project that involve other people languages? How do I work from an XML data file? In small projects like this do I really need to use databases?
Any advice, resoures, links would be much appreciated.
Also appreciate that my last programming language was Basic back in '83.
My friend would like me operational in 3 months!
Thanks in advance;
The reason I started this project was because a friend who designs websites (graphics/ architecture) always needs someone to do the PHP programming. The PHP is used primarily for backoffice. I was discussing with him what he needs, he explained simply for an Administator to be able to change the home page image, change menu page images, add pages, add menu items etc easily, while there are many tutorials for creating passwords/ checking forms/etc etc, these are all written completely in PHP.
My friend works in actionscript, but always gives his PHP programmer an XML file to work from, this gives me a headache trying to conceptually understand the steps I need to go from when working with a website that already exists. The current project has one title page, and 5 submenus, everything is static.
So what I'm really looking for is some advice on my next steps. Most tutorials assume that you are buliding the whole site in PHP. How do we work on a project that involve other people languages? How do I work from an XML data file? In small projects like this do I really need to use databases?
Any advice, resoures, links would be much appreciated.
Also appreciate that my last programming language was Basic back in '83.
My friend would like me operational in 3 months!
Thanks in advance;