Please give me ideas on what to script in PHP...I don't have a mysql set up but I am very knowledgeable in PHP (about a 7 on a scale 1-10 of knowledge, 10 being highest...). Please give me some ideas on what to script...even if it has to be for your website, I cannot think of anything to do... thanks 
Give me ideas on what to script please....
hehe That is the same problem I have, Not knowing what to script... in which case, I visit about 5 Message boards, and reply to questions being asked, and read other questions that have already been answered therefor gaining knowledge
But still, its a pain figuring out something to script... sniffles
Don't know what to code? I don't get it.
I have my site- which I'm constantly working on, a few sites that I support, sites in production, quotes to get out tonight and a few jobs that should be comming in.
If you're that good, forget about programming for the sake of programming, go make money!
Right, and where exactly would I do this?
I dont want to make money, I want to do some projects for myself, as the question stated, any other ideas?
Don't want to make money, eh? Don't hear that very often. If you want to code for yourself, think of stuff that would be useful for you. For example, my mom had a bunch of recipes from South America (using Celcius) and she needed a chart of conversions from Celcius to Fahrenheit so she could make these baked goods. I wrote a little php function in combination with a loop to get her the conversion chart she wanted.
Another idea: I have a ton of clothes (i love shopping and I like dressing well), but sometimes, I don't know what to wear. I was really close to making a php script that would randomly select shoes, pants, belt, shirt, and jewlery for me to wear that day. Then, have a backend area where I could add more clothes (as I got more), get rid of stuff I no longer wear, upload pictures, etc.
I've made a dynamic picture gallery for my 1 year-old nephew. You could make a shopping cart just for fun. Content management systems. A script to keep track of your finances. A library of your .mp3's with links to the files (if you're working locally). A contact management system (could be very easy or extremely complicated depending on how good you wanted it to be and how many/what features). A quiz for people to see how well they know you. Stock watcher with email and/or SMS notification when certain stocks reach certain prices. A message board. Polls. A newspaper site (has potential for a TON of features).
These are just ideas off the top of my head. Look around, see what other people have done. Go to hotscripts.com and check out their scripts for ideas. Find out what would be useful for you or someone you know, then make it.
Cgraz
Visit sourceforge.net and get involved in an open source project. Plenty to choose from.
I wish there was some sort of online version of Quicken. Something to balance a checkbook with and to do budgeting.
4 months later
I got a great script that you can work on....
Converting a tab delimited text file (downloaded from my company's bank) that only works with Quicken, add the necessary columns and flags in the file to convert it to a tab delimited file that will work with Quickbooks. (Basically involves a file upload, read the file, convert the file without disrupting data into the new file format, and then saving the new file and allow the end-user to download the edited file).
That is a relatively easy task for an experienced PHP programmer, which I am not, but becoming one.
I know that these are dumb ideas, but maybe you could make an online calculator; I'm working on one and it's fun but really annoying because the server I'm using has PHP 4.1.2 so I can't use is_infinite()
Anyway, you could make a MadLib library, a crossword puzzle (but that's more JavaScript), a greetings creator to send greetings to friends, a guessing game, a beginner's PHP tutorial, anything: let your imagination run wild!
2 months later
I have had the domain name php-web.net for 100928 years now (ok 2 ) and have never done anything with it.
Im an asp programmer and keep meaning to learn php but cba tbh. If anyone wants to develope it as there own they can do I have one dir on the site i use www.php-web.net/clan / for our dod clan but thats it.
server is linux has 500 mb space php is running in safe mode damm pain I know. Mysql and loads of other stuff
I will of course keep ownership of the domain name. But the content is who ever developes it if you earn cash from it good for you I would never ask for squat etc etc ..
you can have email addy's use of the smtp mail server ect email me if you want it
Well this would be cool, go to www.Hotscripts.com and look at the PHP scripts, there are many catogories as you can see, just start by making 1 of each catogorie! so you'll have a nice script selection and put them up for download.
Edit: You can also make a choice for every script, a user can choose to Download or Read the tutorial for the script.
Yeh it would be kewl
If you wanted to make it a group project its all there and you can all gladly use it.
like i say the only thing i want left untouched is our un finished DOD clan site.
Think I can set up 50 ftp and unlimited email accounts at the moe so there is lots of room for a big group project.
4 days later
So... are you going to start making scripts? if so, link?!?! im not going to use them but looking at the code would be fun!
I've look and failed to find a Concordancer script writen in php(sql) - I would love one for my site -if any ones intrested. I do all right writting php but this would take quite some time for me.