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    • CommentAuthorSunRise
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2007 edited by SunRise on the 11th April 2007 at 18:22:39 EDT
     
    I had some time yesterday and so I learned PHP. It was pretty easy for me to learn some PHP basics and utilize them because of PHP's similarity to Java (which i am good at). And so I used the "include" method to cut up the user pages on a business networking site I am currently working on so that it is easier to add new users but it still needs some work so that it is easier to use but it was fun since I also made two lines of php code that display all the numbers from one to one million in html (there goes a mb of bandwith bakie)

    What I wanted to know is how you guys implemented PHP in things that you have worked on and what other cool stuff I can do with PHP.

    Still amazed at the power of PHP,
    SunRise
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      CommentAuthorJeremyD
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2007
     
    I use includes for my navigation on my site. That way I don't have to go through a ton of pages to edit a typo in one of my links or something.

    but that's the only bit of php that I know....I plan on actually learning it this summer.
    • CommentAuthorRobertCO
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2007
     
    PHP has a lot of uses but if your really interested in learning something bigsmile

    Try to resolve the issue of showing file sizes and dates on a directory listing script
    you can read more about it Here


    Enjoy learning, I sure have been
    bigsmile
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    PHP is extremely powerful, especially when combined with extensions such as the MCrypt library for secure data encryption / decryption. Bit of quick shameless promotion for an upcoming project here but nevermind wink A live demo of what I used it for can found here (password: christopher) if you're interested. Feel free to play around with the demo, it may be slow or act weird if more than one person is logged in at the same time... as it's only meant to be a single user application, a few people from here along with some friends are doing some public testing of its usability and one of these days I'll sort out the few things that need doing and release it (no doubt at a small cost).
    • CommentAuthorRay
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2007
     
    I've used PHP to log visitor ips and stats but that's about it. I'm trying to learn PHP and what kind of resources should I refer to? I've always looked at tizag's PHP tutorials. What do/did you all use?
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      CommentAuthorbakercad
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2007 edited by bakercad on the 11th April 2007 at 21:35:25 EDT
     
    I created an online hockey league (played on EA Sports NHL series) website that has full stats (sortable), game stats (boxscore), schedule, standings, team pages, player bios...etc, etc. Also, I didn't want to make the player names to be plain text and since there are 1600+ players in the league, I didn't want to make images for each.....so I used GD library to create the player name images on the fly. Team owners can log in and add team articles on the individual team pages, Site owner can add articles for any team, add/edit/remove articles on front page, edit team owner info, edit all other page info as well.

    Oh yeah...and the team owners use the same login for the site as they do for the phpBB forum. Not totally integrated, but somewhat.

    AND...all the stats are uploaded automatically to the site as CSV files every two hours by the site owner's game server. I set up a cron job that runs a php file that takes the CSV data and inputs it into the database, every hour. So stats are not real time, but they are updated hourly.
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      CommentAuthorbakercad
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2007
     
    I started learning PHP by reading a book called "PHP and MySQL Web Development (Second Edition)" by Luke Welling and Laura Thompson. For the first 2-3 weeks, I wasn't getting it....then it just clicked.

    Since then, I've learned by just trying new things and getting idea from php websites.
    • CommentAuthorseptor
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2007
     
    I've done many small things with PHP. I've created an IRC bot for a channel I use to idle in (WoW killed our channel :[) it did channel stats, logged URLs and images posted that were displayed on a page, had a karma system, and it had many small basic IRC bot features (google search, weather, etc).

    I also slapped together a script that gathered music I listened to and displayed it (think last.fm).

    Both things have since been abandoned (again WoW comes into play here). You'd be surprised how much you can do with very little knowledge of PHP. Eventually you'll want to do more, which will lead you into more research. I learned my basic knowledge of PHP from tinkering with the very early versions of e107. Everything else I know is just trying stuff and failing, then finally just getting it.
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      CommentAuthorjanpd24
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
     
    Posted By: bakercadI started learning PHP by reading a book called "PHP and MySQL Web Development (Second Edition)" by Luke Welling and Laura Thompson. For the first 2-3 weeks, I wasn't getting it....then it just clicked.

    Since then, I've learned by just trying new things and getting idea from php websites.


    Well, I've been trying to learn it for a year or so, but always get distracted by something or the other! I must look out for that book you mention, Bob.

    Meanwhile, I use includes for the menu and other bits on my site. Also for form handling, but as I didn't write that, it doesn't count!
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      CommentAuthorDENiAL
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2007 edited by DENiAL on the 13th April 2007 at 02:35:26 EDT
     
    I just built a simple app the other day for iconbuffet.com users. It creates an avatar for when the will have tokens again, you can check it out here. I plan on adding some ajax goodness for color choosing, font, and background image. I have also been working on a myspace page creator, @ No Coast Studios, Someone else started it, I have just been making it more robust. One of those know need to reinvent the wheel, but you could add some rims, kind of scenario. :D
    • CommentAuthortomw
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2007
     
    The cool stuff that I'm doing with PHP is creating a language called TML (Template Markup Language). TML is a scripting language in which designed to build websites. I partnered with an entrepreneur and using it for his project buiBase.

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