what exactly is PHP?
Hey All,
I'm new. At first I registered as a 13 year old and wondered why the heck every time i tried to make a post it told me i had to get my parents permission.. he he he - sorry about that.
so ok what exactly is PHP? right now i'm under the impression that it is some sort of database driven site??? i could be totally wrong.
anyways i ask because i have to 12 really heavy content sites and was wondering if it would be worth my time to learn it? or something else... how would it make my life easier? or what would..
here is an example of the stuff that i have to do.. this one is just done with plain HTML and CSS ... anyways.. take a peak and let me know
http://www.epples.ca/thermal/webfiles/ap42/ap42.html
its not done of course but i'm thinking its a real pain sometimes to do each page individually and then creating libraries for the TOC's and stuff.. and then inserting them.. because what you see there is 1/15th of the content!
cheers
Mark Hensler posted this at 17:02 — 20th June 2001.
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YES! Learn PHP and mySQL, it will make life easier.
I
HIGHLYrecommend getting very acquainted with http://php.net. They have a very good manual with search capabilities, and user contributed notes (very handy). They also have a neat funcion lookup.I have the PHP 4 Bible written by Tim Converse and Joyce Park, published by IDG. It's a good book, and has a good index. (but I seem to use php.net more often than the book)
I don't have a book for mySQL. I just kinda learned it by trial and error, and reading docs on http://mysql.com.
Mark Hensler
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Megan posted this at 17:58 — 20th June 2001.
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PHP and ASP are server side database integration languages, so you can use them to call your content from a database (among other things) which will make life easier. Someone else would be able to explain that better. I'm just starting out on this myself, but I'm planning on using tutorials at webmonkey.com and/or sitepoint.com. Does anyone know of any other good tutorials for getting started?
ONe thing you'll need to know is what kind of server your site is hosted on - if it's on Windows you'll probably need to use ASP (although it might support PHP anyway - find out), if it's on Unux you'll want PHP.
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Megan posted this at 18:03 — 20th June 2001.
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Oh, and another thing you might want to know is that ASP is a lot more likely to show up in job postings around here (not like there have been any job postings lately
), although I think PHP is starting to get more popular.
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ktown posted this at 18:12 — 20th June 2001.
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thanks!
yeah i have to figure out how to make my own life easier becuase repetitive content that is of NO interest to you can get pretty dull after a week or so
so what is the difference between ASP & PHP then, just the support?
mairving posted this at 18:38 — 20th June 2001.
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ASP is generally more often a Microsoft product, although there are versions like ChiliSoft made for Linux/Unix.
PHP is open-source code. Go to PHP.net to learn more about PHP. Generally PHP is used in a combo of Linux/Unix, Apache & MYSQL, although there are windows versions out there.
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ktown posted this at 19:06 — 20th June 2001.
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Apparently this is supposed to be pretty usefull, I haven't had a chance to look at it yet but i hope to tonight
http://webmasterbase.com/article.php/228
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