A couple of months ago, I knew almost nothing about PHP, only that is was a programming language that I needed to learn. Today, my whole site relies upon PHP and I have gained the confidence that almost anything is possible using PHP. I accomplished this achievement using methods that I will describe in this article.
Set Small Goals That You Can Achieve
One of the most destructive things a programmer can do is to try to develop an extensive program or complicated website all at once. When I started to create my new site, I began with a simple goal–to make a members’ area that users could log into and out from. I didn’t decide what features the members area would have, I just wanted to successfully code the restricted area. I made a very simple form of registration–a database for users and the PHP functions that were required to transfer the data to the MySQL database. It was not a ‘mission impossible’ goal, but it was something that I knew I could accomplish and then I could move on to the next goal.
At that point I determined how to secure the data that was entered by users in the form. Keeping in mind that hackers might try to mess up my database by abusing the auto-registration or filling it with spam, I decided to make a simple security key using an image. The user is required to enter the text from the image in order to prevent spam/robotic registrations.
My next task was to decide how people can login and logout and how to validate the form to make sure someone did not enter garbage data in the email field. Then I needed to figure out how to send an email when the user finished the registration process. This was needed in order to make sure that the user entered a valid email.
After I worked out the features mentioned above, I started to think about my next task. I decided to allow members to post their own tutorials on the site and store them in the MySQL database. I wanted to be able to:
- rate these tutorials
- create a profile for each user
- allow users to comment on several pages
- allow users to search through these areas
- integrate the JavaScript with the PHP code
The PHP code with the JavaScript in my dynamic content, which enabled me to enter the new tutorial titles in JavaScript drop down menu. We improved the method used to score for use
The Internet Is a PHP Developer’s Friend
Even if you do not have any PHP manuals or books, if you read this article, you are very lucky! Internet search engines, forums and PHP is located in www.php.net manual can be your best tool. First of all, I have the syntax of any PHP function, or implementation of methods, appears to be in the PHP manual above website. Then, I try to own PHP code, if I have not found what I needed, or I face a problem, I use a search engine or forums to find answers to my questions.
Keep in mind that by searching the discussion forums, I have also found some very complicated solutions to problems that I was able to solve in a much simpler manner. Nevertheless, the forum posts can provide you with an idea of what is going on with your code, or what you need to do to accomplish your goal.
One of the issues facing that I have a lot of time was in receipt when I made the security key for my site. An example of PHP was secretly executed twice, so that the key to how an image was displayed to the user, was the real key was sent to the PHP form processing page is different. This issue has been occurring only with the Mozilla browser. I did not know at first that PHP was carried out twice, and I had no idea that it was connected to the browser until I searched online and found some posts in forums from people having similar problems. They explained that Mozilla requests HTML and images on separate applications. Using this information, I could come to a solution.
Everything You Want, You Must Code
However, if you do not use the code to other developers, you can certainly learn from their work. If you are dependent on the work of other programmers to use, just to say that, because of the trade tricks, it takes time to learn. For example, I as a tool to create a mechanism for the submission of the tutorial was using the open source forum, I would be done without knowing the text of the form containing the caret in the area like?
Hack Your Own Site
Security issues are very important for any developer, even for the most rudamentary applications. For instance, you do not want to wake up one morning to find your site’s guestbook full of junk and porn advertisements.
If there is any possibility of an application not working properly, your site has a flaw. One of the best things about PHP is that it is a server side language, which means that users will not be able to see the code directly–things will work behind the scenes. Conversely, if you write bad code, you might inevitably allow your users to really mess things up on your site. For instance, you would never want to allow the transfer of a variable that is entered through a form directly to your database. You should use htmlspecialchars to avoid allowing someone to add malicious code to your database.
Interactive Site?
These days, the topic, the website adopt a flexible attitude, with their guests. The best way to create some interaction is mixed JavaScript and PHP, so that these "teammates" to work together. The most promising new technologies is one of AJAX, which it. I recently started using my website on the AJAX. This is a simple, fast, saves you from waiting for user page refresh just post a comment again, for me, (or the rate of tutorial). Because PHP is a server-side language, you only need to reload the page to pass variable. Ajax using XMLHttpRequest or other means of JavaScript, but you can achieve in the background server and without having to reload any results returned to the user.
Conclusion
Although I am still learning PHP, by using the techniques I mentioned above, I was able to create my own interactive website. I continue to add to my site, and my knowledge of PHP increases with each new feature I add. I encourage you to begin your own journey into PHP programming–you won’t be sorry.
