PHP HELP!!!!!

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 1:30 pm

Does anyone know of any free PHP authoring software????

I know nothing about PHP!

For a website I'm doing, it has to be PHP enabled for a school forum, which I've already done without any problems, but if I want any other pages on the site that work separately tot he forum, they need to be in PHP.

So where do I start? Any Front-page-style authoring software I can download free? Trial versions of non-free software? Help! Where do I start!

ssj3gohan · Post by **ssj3gohan** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:13 pm

okay, you have to do this to get started my way (I'm a die-hard 'DONT EVER WYSIWYG'):
download 1st page: http://www.evrsoft.com and preferably wait about a month and download the 2004 version (which they have STILL not finished, bastards). Then follow the courses on http://www.w3schools.com. After that, for more advanced knowledge about php, you can download dozens of free ebooks using any sharing protocol or http://www.ebooks.com (most of them are totally free)

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:09 pm

My server already has the PHP programs installed!

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:30 pm

Epsilon wrote:My server already has the PHP programs installed!

No, I don't mean that - I don't mean the server-end interpreters, I mean front-end authoring software - that I can build a site with.

I want something like Frontpage, but for PHP.

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:26 am

CamClub wrote:
Epsilon wrote:My server already has the PHP programs installed!
No, I don't mean that - I don't mean the server-end interpreters, I mean front-end authoring software - that I can build a site with.

I want something like Frontpage, but for PHP.

I haven't seen any Front page like WSYIWYG PHP editors, PHP is very dependent on the libraries that are installed for a lot of functionality. For a nice text based editor, try PHPEdit, not sure how much is provided in Dreamweaver from a PHP angle... the problem is HTML is a formatting language, pretty easy to do with WSYSWIG, and a lot of the WebBots used in Frontpage are VBScript and JScript combos, but primarily use the Front Page extensions on the server to achieve their functionality. PHP is a platform independent programing language, so basically need to be hand coded. It's a pretty simple language to get a handle on tho....

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 9:27 am

Methinks PHP for dummies may be a good start then!

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:51 pm

SAMS Teach yourself PHP in 24 hours..... we've used that as a textbook in our intor to PHP class...

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:56 pm

Yes, your probably going to want to learn sql to if your planning on having databases, with things such as logins and the like, look at me camclub im a lot younger then you and learnt php,sql,and numours other langagues, im sure you can to!

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 1:30 pm

I3lade203 wrote:Yes, your probably going to want to learn sql to if your planning on having databases, with things such as logins and the like, look at me camclub im a lot younger then you and learnt php,sql,and numours other langagues, im sure you can to!

It's just PHP I don't know anything about. I studied about a dozen computer languages at university.

I just wanted to know if there was something that could make things easier, like a cross between Frontpage and Access, that would obviously handle PHP and make life easy for me.

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:00 am

Talked to my wife who works with Dreamweaver and she said it will generate PHP code, particularly database access code.... so... try that and see if it does what you need..

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:33 pm

Ah i see, why don't you just learn the langauge?

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 11:12 am

I3lade203 wrote:Ah i see, why don't you just learn the langauge?

Because I'm in the middle of a project that has to be launched very soon, and I don't have the time.