new to this stuff...

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but wanting to learn, due to me owning a vbulletin. is there any tutorials on html, php, mysql and such? if yall can point me in the right direction, would be very cool. thank you. 🙂

Rodney_H_

Welcome to PHPBuilder.com & to PHP!

There are great tutorials available online.

1) http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/

2) http://www.tizag.com/phpT/ & http://www.tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/

3) http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-mysql-tutorial

4) http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/

5) http://codewalkers.com/tutorials.php

6) http://www.google.com/search?&q=php+mysql+tutorial

To get started you may want to set up a testing server on your computer. In order to accomplish that, you will need to download:

a) PHP: http://www.php.net/downloads.php

b) Apache: http://www.apache.org/

c) MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/

d) PhpMyAdmin (nice to have): http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

You will learn more installing them yourself individually and coordinating them. If you would rather, there are packages that has everything you need to download a testing server, php, mysql all in one go such as:

i) http://www.wampserver.com/en/

ii) http://www.easyphp.org/

I hope that helps.

Have fun..........

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thank you so much!! i look forward to coding with yall soon....lol. 🙂

Rodney_H_

:-)

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on the testing servers....how would i even go about setting them up? dont you have to code to do that? or nah? lol

thorpe

You might be best to install something like xampp first up. Just google it.

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thorpe wrote:
You might be best to install something like xampp first up. Just google it.

i just installed wamps.....what is xampp?

Houdini

It is like WAMP but it also has Perl and a mailserver and an FTP client plus some other things that WAMP doesn't have like two version of PHP both 4 and 5 and you can switch between 5 and 4 depending on what you are doing.

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Rodney H. wrote:
Welcome to PHPBuilder.com & to PHP!

There are great tutorials available online.

1) http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/

2) http://www.tizag.com/phpT/ & http://www.tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/

3) http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-mysql-tutorial

4) http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/

5) http://codewalkers.com/tutorials.php

6) http://www.google.com/search?&q=php+mysql+tutorial

To get started you may want to set up a testing server on your computer. In order to accomplish that, you will need to download:

a) PHP: http://www.php.net/downloads.php

b) Apache: http://www.apache.org/

c) MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/

d) PhpMyAdmin (nice to have): http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

You will learn more installing them yourself individually and coordinating them. If you would rather, there are packages that has everything you need to download a testing server, php, mysql all in one go such as:

i) http://www.wampserver.com/en/

ii) http://www.easyphp.org/

I hope that helps.

Have fun..........

do i need to download all those tutorials? or do some of them have all coding options?

scrolls

aight, i uninstalled wamp and installed the ampp one....now...how is this similar to a hosting server or vb admin panel?

Houdini

One good source is an online book called Practical PHP Programming and it is pretty much up to dat including PHP 5. it is always online and takes you throughall aspects of using PHP and MySQL with plenty of ecplanations and examples.

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Houdini wrote:
One good source is an online book called Practical PHP Programming and it is pretty much up to dat including PHP 5. it is always online and takes you throughall aspects of using PHP and MySQL with plenty of ecplanations and examples.

glanced threw it...saved to my favs so when i get more time ill read it....but, when i glanced over it i didnt see anything to do with mysql or anything.

nevermind i see it now....lol, thank you.

Houdini

Chapter 9 Databases Goes over the history of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server and SQLite. Most of the other parts of theat section cover mostly MySQL. I do notice that you saw it, it does have quite a bit in it so just overlooking Chapter 9 without seeing what was contained there doesn't mean it isn't.

It covers just about all you would need to get a start with MySQL and PHP, including normalisation, MySQL Improved (MySQLI), and more. I like it because there are no torn or missing pages or coffee stains all over the pages like many of my books,some held together with masking tape.

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Houdini wrote:
Chapter 9 Databases Goes over the history of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server and SQLite. Most of the other parts of theat section cover mostly MySQL. I do notice that you saw it, it does have quite a bit in it so just overlooking Chapter 9 without seeing what was contained there doesn't mean it isn't.

It covers just about all you would need to get a start with MySQL and PHP, including normalisation, MySQL Improved (MySQLI), and more. I like it because there are no torn or missing pages or coffee stains all over the pages like many of my books,some held together with masking tape.

lol, i hear ya....im gonan read over this book now..any chapters i should really read threw?

Rodney_H_

How about 1-9 ? LOL!!

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Rodney H. wrote:
How about 1-9 ? LOL!!

umm, yea. lol.