help me get started please
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:39 am
first off, i know absolutely nothing about php.
your all thinking, you poor guy. lol but i do have a good knowledge of html and iv done quite a bit of programming. i've done C and Java at university, and iv taught myself VB. regards to databases ive done quite a bit with MS access and im always learning more about querys and database organization.
ive heard that PHP is similar to c so im sure i'll catch on to that part very quickly. im sure theres plenty of documentation on syntax and function calls available online somewhere. what i think will be more trouble (and is basically the reason i have been afraid to try to learn php before now) is how to set it all up.
what do i have to do to get it all started off. what do i have to install? what does my server have to support? how would modules such as php nuke be associated with this? if the server supports php can i just start calling functions in my html document? where do i put the php code? how do i interface with a database in php? (does it have to be SQL? another thing that i was afraid to learn)
i would like to set up phpThumb() http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/demo/de ... .demo1.php so that i can do my thumbnails for my photos quickly. but im sure im going to run into trouble
eventually i want to do a small page with a fixed map (geographical) and be able to point to places on the map and have a tooltip appear with info on that location read from a database, for this i know i'll need php
can anyone point me in the right direction.
Thank you so much in advance.
your all thinking, you poor guy. lol but i do have a good knowledge of html and iv done quite a bit of programming. i've done C and Java at university, and iv taught myself VB. regards to databases ive done quite a bit with MS access and im always learning more about querys and database organization.
ive heard that PHP is similar to c so im sure i'll catch on to that part very quickly. im sure theres plenty of documentation on syntax and function calls available online somewhere. what i think will be more trouble (and is basically the reason i have been afraid to try to learn php before now) is how to set it all up.
what do i have to do to get it all started off. what do i have to install? what does my server have to support? how would modules such as php nuke be associated with this? if the server supports php can i just start calling functions in my html document? where do i put the php code? how do i interface with a database in php? (does it have to be SQL? another thing that i was afraid to learn)
i would like to set up phpThumb() http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/demo/de ... .demo1.php so that i can do my thumbnails for my photos quickly. but im sure im going to run into trouble
eventually i want to do a small page with a fixed map (geographical) and be able to point to places on the map and have a tooltip appear with info on that location read from a database, for this i know i'll need php
can anyone point me in the right direction.
Thank you so much in advance.