My first PHP Application
June 28, 2008 [4:50 pm]As you might know from my previous posts I have been studying PHP course during the last 2 months. I have really been enjoying the course. I found it very interesting and useful. Just imagine, after only 9 lessons I am able to create simple web application. Actually it is blog again. I have not chosen the subject. It came from our professor.
What have I learned during those 2 months?
Short story long I have learned how to use php functions, how to interact with database using SQL language.
What it means in reality?
I am able to insert and retrieve data from MYSQL database using html forms for example or have login and registration system, using sessions to define what content is user able to see when he/she is not loged in. I have also learned how to send data from the web form using POST and GET methods. How to pass variables from one page into the other. This is for example used on the blogs when you click on the category and you can see which blog posts belong to this category.
What next?
I want to use the knowledge I got from this course in my fist private web application. It is going to be project management tool which I will start developing immediately after I build lewro’s blog 3.0 . I am also going to sign up for the advance PHP course which is going to start in October. I have not finished yet reading my 2 PHP books but there are not that many pages left. I might buy another one though. There are some PHP podcasts I have found so all these will keep me in for the next couple of months.
Oh yeah and the most interesting at the end. Here is the link for the blog I have build for the course-work: my php blog . You can register (just name and psw) to see the whole application. I have only use simple CSS just to give it some kind of structure so it is not pretty, pretty.
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What others say
Nice stuff. Have been on a very similar road myself. Started with a couple of books and built myself a simple photo blog with PHP. Since then I’ve been working on my own Basecamp equivalent and a new personal website using the CodeIgniter PHP framework.
Nice. Let me know when you build it. I have already lots of ideas about the project management app. It should help me to organize all my projects. Most of the features will be standard such are projects, tasks, user etc but I want to implement some unique one as well. I hope I can come up with some nice clean user interface.