PHP / MySQL Software

big-dog

Any good software for writing PHP code with templates and such. And any software that will help with creating or extracting parts or all of MySQL table to a html page.
Cheap with newbie’s in mind.

leatherback

Do a search in the echo lounge for editor: You will get loads of threads about this.

Houdini

Try Practical PHP Programming although this is a link to an older version it is still one I refer to quite often and should be a great start for you.

big-dog

I was hoping for a cookie cutter type software package with wizards and stuff, something that would build, link and do most everything and all you had to do it upload files to server. Surely there's something out there. I downloaded a couple of demos but you still have to know the code to make them work it seems. I've found a lot of scripts for php that seem to be described as things I’m trying to do, but as a newbie you still have to know what to do with the script before it does you much good.
I fill guilty always asking for help from forums because most of you that help probably have better things to do than help people that just don't get it. The help is always greatly appreciated though.
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Piranha

big-dog wrote:
I fill guilty always asking for help from forums because most of you that help probably have better things to do than help people that just don't get it.

Don't feel guilty. If we don't want to answer or don't have the time then we simply won't answer. Easy. It is out own choise.

To your original question. Programming is not like making a website where there are basically content (text, pics, tables, buttons and so on) and links. That can quite easily be done with a program. But programming uses logic that simply can't be done in that way. I suggest that you do a few tutorials to learn the basics, then start to program small things yourself, then go towards bigger and bigger things. When you know it good enough then you might be able to change the code in well-documented code you find, as an example forums.

JPatrick

Bob,

Have you tried some of the open source content management systems?

Here are thre of the best known with the most active forum support.

www.phpnuke.com
www.postnuke.com
www.joomla.com

My latest project is rebuilding my bird feeder store using Joomla with Virtuemart for the storefront.

Take a look and see if they will do what you need. But don't stop learning php. You will need it eventually.

You'll also need to learn css and probably a bit of javascript. A little bit of this, a little bit of that, and a little bit of this, and you'll have the perfect solution.

John Patrick,

big-dog

Im not looking really for website packages looking for software that will put php and java together with wizards or so. I havent found anything as of yet the post above seems right, the programing is up to the person behind the key board.

Theres someone fame to richs get a ton of working php pages that do this or that add instructions on each call them templetes, write some code to sow this one and that one togeither. and cha ching you got golf cart money.

Im still looking

Piranha

Excuse me, but why would you like to put PHP and Java together? I just haven't heard of putting them together before.

JPatrick

I'm new to this concept as well, but I understand that it's more about putting css and javascript together I think. joomla.com has lots of javascript files being called from php.

As I understand it Javascript can be used to stabilize popout menus styled with css. Css has a habit of closing the pop-out menu when your mouse strays from the container. So the programer uses javascript to keep the pop-out menu open.

There are several other reasons to use javascript to enhance a template. I didn't understand it at first either, and asked someone in chat to explain why they would use javascript with php, and their answer was.

Javascript happens!

I've got to make a t-shirt with that on it. haha.

Now, is there a means of using php to stabilize a pop-out menu?