help with php

[jil21]

Hi! I am doing some work for uni but having trouble doing it, in that I dont understand it or how to do it! and was wondering if anyone out there would be able to help.
I'm having to do a big project where I build a website based on 7 units of information, and one of them is PHP I have tried doing tutorials and all sorts and still dont get it. the deliverables (i think) are that i need to include php in my website so that it can produce tomorrows date, and process a form with book and meal info (i think thats right!) and also i have to demonstrate and explain using php templating on my site. :mad: :queasy:
any help would be greatly appreciated!
Jil

[jrohr]

if you want to learn a bit about php, this is a website for a class i took in college.
should point you in the right direction

http://www.justustwo.com/ECA236/labs/indexECA236.php

[dagon]

this is way to vague to be able to offer any real help, google, read lots of tutorials and give it a go, if you encounter a specific php question come back and ask it.

[bradgrafelman]

For the date bit, that's quite easy using the [man]date/man and [man]strtotime/man functions:

echo 'Tomorrow is: ' . date('F jS Y', strtotime('tomorrow'));

As for processing a form, there's easy PHP tutorials out there that should give you the gist of that. If you can give us more specific details and examples of what you've tried, we'd be more than happy to fill in the gaps or point you in the right direction.

PHP templating can be more of a challenging task. There are pre-made templating systems out there; the only one I can think of off the top of my head is called Smarty.