embi
International Coach
Discuss things like HTML, Javascript, PHP, CGI, AJAX etc in this thread.
I learnt HTML a couple of years ago, and followed up with a bit of javascript after learning programming with Visual Basic etc.
To practice and learn PHP it is definitely essential to get your own server, this is quite easy, you can either download Apache, PHP and MySQL seperately (just google them all, they're all free programs), and spend ages setting them up (they are nasty to set up, but you have complete control once you've done it) or there are a few packages you can download which set it all up for you. I find these take a bit of control away from you. Once such is XAMPP.
One tool that is essential for dealing with MySQL is PHPMyAdmin, you won't get anywhere fast without that.
Anyway, its so easy to practice your PHP once you've done all that, I found an excellent PHP guestbook tutorial and added my own features such as banning users and deleting posts. You could also install your own forum, your own wiki and anything else that uses PHP and SQL.
As for AJAX, I got a book out of the library, and am learning it. From scratch, I've managed to make a chatroom. AJAX is a technology that uses Javascript to reload parts of the page without reloading it all. The next version of vBulletin, 3.6.0 Beta, uses alot of AJAX, and you can see this in action in our testing forums (set up by Duff) at www.youthcluster.com/test/ .
I learnt HTML a couple of years ago, and followed up with a bit of javascript after learning programming with Visual Basic etc.
To practice and learn PHP it is definitely essential to get your own server, this is quite easy, you can either download Apache, PHP and MySQL seperately (just google them all, they're all free programs), and spend ages setting them up (they are nasty to set up, but you have complete control once you've done it) or there are a few packages you can download which set it all up for you. I find these take a bit of control away from you. Once such is XAMPP.
One tool that is essential for dealing with MySQL is PHPMyAdmin, you won't get anywhere fast without that.
Anyway, its so easy to practice your PHP once you've done all that, I found an excellent PHP guestbook tutorial and added my own features such as banning users and deleting posts. You could also install your own forum, your own wiki and anything else that uses PHP and SQL.
As for AJAX, I got a book out of the library, and am learning it. From scratch, I've managed to make a chatroom. AJAX is a technology that uses Javascript to reload parts of the page without reloading it all. The next version of vBulletin, 3.6.0 Beta, uses alot of AJAX, and you can see this in action in our testing forums (set up by Duff) at www.youthcluster.com/test/ .
Joking, come on guys
