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Help with my first step on Php

Aug 28th, 2004

:rolleyes: nothig at all
I dont know what to do ? dont know anythig about PHp ?
To start my doing Php , what i need ? Do i have to install mySQL in my computer or anythig else ? Just tell me tools what i need to learn Php????

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Re: Help with my first step on Php

Aug 28th, 2004

http://enscape.net/index.php?id=114

step by step settings to setting up a windows web server.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

w3schools guide to PHP

http://daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum53.html

snippits section of PHP

this should help you get on your feet quite nicely . once you have finished installing your web server and reading through w3schools giude to PHP, check out the snippets section and see how PHP works, study the scripts and try to interpret what it should do. Try messing with the scripts, or purposefully making them not work, look to see what kind of errors you recieve and such. its all about the practice.

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Re: Help with my first step on Php

Aug 30th, 2004

There is a software called FireServ (26 MB) which comes with a Windows based installer. This software will install AMPP (Apache, MySQL, PHP & PhpMyAdmin) on your windows based machine. It has a GUI control panel to start and stop the server. Do a google search to download the file.

If you have learned any programming language like C++ or Java or a scripting language like ASP, Perl then transition to PHP will not take much time.

My first PHP book was "PHP and MySQL Web Development" by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson.

Who should read this book

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This book will teach you how to create interactive Web sites from the simplest order form through to complex secure e-commerce sites. What’s more, you’ll learn how to do it using Open Source technologies. This book is aimed at readers who already know at least the basics of HTML and have done some programming in a modern programming language before, but have not necessarily programmed for the Internet or used a relational database. If you are a beginning programmer, you should still find this book useful, but it might take you a little longer to digest. We’ve tried not to leave out any basic concepts, but we do cover them at speed. The typical reader of this book is someone who wants to master PHP and MySQL for the purpose of building a large or commercial Web site. You might already be working in another Web development language; if so, this book should get you up to speed quickly. We wrote this book because we were tired of finding books on PHP that were basically a function reference. These books are useful, but they don’t help when your boss or client has said “Go build me a shopping cart.�? We have done our best to make every example useful. Many of the code samples can be directly used in your Web site, and many others can be used with minor modifications.

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Re: Help with my first step on Php

Aug 30th, 2004

Also, checkout www.php.net , it has everything considering it IS PHP! If you are having trouble with a function just goto php.net/function name

For example if you are having trouble with echo() goto http://www.php.net/echo

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Re: Help with my first step on Php

Sep 3rd, 2004

first to work with php code you must start with

<?php

//your code here
echo " this my frist php code ";

?>

try copy this code and paste into file then rename the file with *.php
you need apache server to run this sample.

any help submit me on wesam_software@yahoo.com

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Re: Help with my first step on Php

Sep 3rd, 2004

As YoungCoder stated, become familiar with http://www.php.net

You can search for functions, tutorials, and a vast
array of information provided through php.net.

My suggestion is to start with PHP 5.x and Mysql 4.x combo. No reason to start with (PHP) 4.3.x or (Mysql)
3.x.x at this point.

What are you looking to do with regard to PHP? Are you looking for database connectivity? Or are you just looking for some basic scripting options for a server?

Let me know what direction you are heading and I will be happy to break down code line by line for you to get you started. I know how it can be just starting out, I was at that place myself once.

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Re: Help with my first step on Php

Jun 4th, 2009

Video tutorials:

http://net.tutsplus.com/videos/scree...ving-into-php/

But I am surprised at the no-bashing in this thread; usually, someone would have posted a venomous "go do your own searching on google" message by now... :puzzled:

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Re: Help with my first step on Php

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Originally Posted by aditya2071990

Video tutorials:

http://net.tutsplus.com/videos/scree...ving-into-php/

But I am surprised at the no-bashing in this thread; usually, someone would have posted a venomous "go do your own searching on google" message by now... :puzzled:

There's no bashing because it was 5 YEARS AGO!!!!!!! It was a simpler time when people rarely bumped half-decade old threads

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Re: Help with my first step on Php

Jun 5th, 2009

Oh my god, I am so sorry.... I just dunno how I came across such an old thread, I'll make it a point to check the dates from now... sorry again...

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Re: Help with my first step on Php

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Jun 6th, 2009

its good to start learn php, i'm also new to php and i started learn php .
first you need a web server to run php codes ,because php is a server side scripting language.
i use WAMP server , it can easily download and install to ur machine.

then follow the www.homeandlearn.co.uk site to php tutorials . it contain a good php tutorial.

after following the basics u can start coding.
u can use any editor software to code,
ex : notepad, wordpad, editplus ,,etc

after write ur code save that file in folder called www in c:\wamp
(where u installed wamp server)

then start IE/firefox and give this in the address bar

http://localhost/your php file name.php
and click go/press enter key.

your output will display in browser as aweb page.