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Hot Topics Hanging on L4Y Closing Down anyone here Crackdown 3's geomod Roll-Call. Who's still... R.I.P Sir Lots-A-Pot Server maps? Red Faction for Mac Who's still here? Run Event December 27th!   Online Goodness There are 0 users and 2 guests online     Levels-4-You : Lounge : learning PHP [Forum Rules]   Back to Forum Thread List Mostertman    Posted 3rd Oct 2005 11:16am Post 542 / 2820 Can Anyone tell me, what PHP exactually is and were on internet i can find a good place to start learning it. Garner    Posted 3rd Oct 2005 1:48pm Post 1604 / 4125 http://www.php.net Tutorials are on there somewhere... all you really need (as long as you have any idea about programming) is the manual, http://www.php.net/manual/en. Shortcut to look up any function you already know the name off is just... http://www.php.net/function.name eg http://www.php.net/strpos Similarly if you want to look up functions to do with arrays (as an example) http://www.php.net/array etc etc etc... "Science is this extraordinary transnational, transcultural, trans-everything language which is the only way to discover Truth and its regrettable that billions are still stuck in the Middle Ages believing the crap propagated by Popes and priests..." - Peter Atkins    Modified Oct 3rd, 01:49pm by Garner Molodiets   Posted 3rd Oct 2005 1:50pm L4Y Member Post 751 / 2687 there is a massive ammount of tutorials in PHP on the internet. Just google for PHP tutorial, you may even find some tutorials in deutsh. http://fr.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php PHP is a language to code websites like HTML. Levels4you for instance is written in PHP. You can code a website in PHP and in html. The difference is that PHP is dynamic. It adapts to the user, generaly works with a data base (that 's why, on levels4you, pages take time to be created). Html is read by your browser whereas PHP is read by a program: Appache (run by the server) and translated into html before being sent onto the internet. EDIT; ouch. Too late. I've been beaten by the specialist. spoilsport    Modified Oct 3rd, 01:51pm by Molodiets Garner    Posted 3rd Oct 2005 7:10pm Post 1607 / 4125 You need a markup language such as HTML to format data for the intended client. The PHP is server side only. Its basically a way of manipulating the HTML/XML/RSS/CSS/WHATEVER before sending it to the browser/user requesting it. "Science is this extraordinary transnational, transcultural, trans-everything language which is the only way to discover Truth and its regrettable that billions are still stuck in the Middle Ages believing the crap propagated by Popes and priests..." - Peter Atkins     sobe    Posted 3rd Oct 2005 9:59pm Post 739 / 3194 Also, for creating sessions and such you will need SQL. "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a dozen, because some bakers would view a dozen as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006     Garner    Posted 3rd Oct 2005 10:37pm Post 1609 / 4125 Default session handler is the servers filesystem. You do not need any database access in order to create a session... unless you're using a shared server host that has switched from the default session handler or have a dedicated server and choose to switch... "Science is this extraordinary transnational, transcultural, trans-everything language which is the only way to discover Truth and its regrettable that billions are still stuck in the Middle Ages believing the crap propagated by Popes and priests..." - Peter Atkins

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