Ideas for articles.

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Fellow PHP scripters,

Due to the recent complete lack of articles on phpbuilder I decided to write one.

Any suggestions what it should be about?

Anon

Personally would like to read a comprehensive and detailed article about principles of designing contenet manegment systems..
In simple words: How to write an administration system for a site? what are the emphasis? methods ?

So can you handle it vincent? 🙂

yours,
maj2001

Anon

Vincent...By the way.... Can you take a looke on my post in this forum.. about having a site in 2 diffirent languages..I apreciate your help, if you can....

Thanx

djg_uk

Vincent,

How about a nice article explaining the differences between server-side and client-side coding, so that the question won't get asked for the 1000th time in the forums?

Regards,

David

Anon

Hi Vincent,
I think this sites articles lack a little theory of application design. Like the content management mentioned earlier, I've built a pretty good content managment system but know I could have benifited not from exact code examples but a 'what to consider, what to resaerch' point of view.

There's lots of specific code stuff out there but not much in the way of theory.

So how about an article outlining how an experienced programmer would tackle a common task like content mgmt aimed at those who can't quite call themselves experts but who are not beginners either?

Regards

Nick

Anon

two suggestions:

1) integration of Javascript and PHP and their interaction.

2) a "library" (for lack of a better word) - ideally searchable in some form - of code snippets that do all the things that people ask for all the time - just the REALLY basic things. For example, about once a week, someone asks how to pull values for a drop-down list out of a DB and then how to make one selected - something that when the NEXT person asks, we can all just link to the code snippet. You could even get some volunteers to write the individual little snippets (I'll write one!)

edwardsbc

Amen to that. The vast majority of the questions here are not the "How do I build a space shuttle" variety but the "how do I open a door if I have the key" variety. It seems many users may have programming experience or html experience but not both. They just need a little direction to help them connect the two at a very basic level.

Anon

Only thing is that you'll all end up answering the same questions but pointing people to the article instead of the manual. Great idea, but only if life were perfect and human nature could be altered to suit this forum.

Nah, stick with something for the intermediates.

Nick

mersal

Session Whith expansion more

mersal

sorry
I mean

Session With expansion more,

There is so much questions about it .

Thank you in advance

Anon

I agree that people need to get to the manual, but the manual does not provide examples of solutions, just the parts.

I tend to learn things much better if I can see a working example. good eample, I've been trying to learn CSS for about two weeks. I read and read and read (including the actual spec and various tutorials), but until I actually looked at the source code of a site that implemented the things I was trying to do (which I came accross by chance), I didn't understand.

I'm suggesting a code snippet library that is not articles, but simply well documented code of the simplest things, how to connect to a DB, how to retreive and display data from a DB, how to ... well, you get the point.

the users of the boards can point newbies to this instead of writing out the same answers over and over.

Anon

Come, on Vincent, don't be shy, what are you going to write about?

And more importantly, will you submit a cheasey photo to go with the article? Perhaps you could really go to town and get a pair of NHS specs, and anorak and have the photo taken holding a flask and a notebook on a railway bridge! It would be great don't you think?

Regards

Nick

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I have decided to write about what you suggested, the theory behind application design. Or at least some helpfull text about the do's and don'ts of creating large scripts.

I'm not sure if I'll submit it to PHPbuilder though, I would have to leave my house to get a picture taken.... I still have bad dreams about that time long long ago when I had to get a picture taken for my drivers license...

Anon

Great, make sure you drop me a line as I'll look forward to reading it

nwilson@mail.dk