so i want to code
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so i want to code
ok i find myself often bored sitting in my apartment at night so i was thinking about starting some cool script but i cant think of anything to do. so i am asking you (yes, you) to come up with some cool ideas for a useful script. i have a lot of expierence but im no guru so maybe keep things in perspective (ie. im not writing the next paypal). thanks if you post but you get none of my thanks OR candy if you dont reply
Re: so i want to code
Well, it depends on what you want to accomplish.shiznatix wrote:ok i find myself often bored sitting in my apartment at night so i was thinking about starting some cool script but i cant think of anything to do.
The suggestion I often make for programmers that want to "get their feet wet" in php is to find an opensource php project they like, and try to help out. There are roughly 3,000 php projects listed on freshmeat under a freedom software & opensource license.
Any one of them could certainly use the help, and will likely already have interesting code you can learn from. Sourceforge has over half a dozen projects that are actively asking for php developers to help - http://sourceforge.net/people/?category_id=1 (Search on PHP in the page text).
There are games, programs, utilities, scripts, just about anything you can think of. If nothing else, its a great place to get inspiration about what to work on.
Of course, these forums are also a good guide to what people want. Lots of posts about login systems, database systems, encryption, logging, and so forth pop up each day. All of them are issues that people are actually facing, and would love an easy solution to - which you could write.
As I said, it all depends on what you want to accomplish. You might just want some experience, you might want to help a community out, you might want to change the php world. Hopefully between sourceforge and freshmeat, you can find inspiration.