PHP Workshop

Hosted by: Don Arrowsmith

Aspects of a web site include content, appearance, and behavior. Good web sites use HTML for content, CSS to control appearance, and JavaScript to control behavior.

PHP is a server-based scripting language that can enhance all three of these aspects of a web site and make maintenance of the site much easier. The PACS web site uses PHP throughout. PHP is available on most Linux-based web hosts and can be easily integrated into your existing web pages.

The PHP workshop will help you learn more about PHP and ways to use it to design web sites. Ways to test your scripts on your hardware will be described and real-world examples will be shown.

Our Next Meeting:

Saturday, February 20: PHP and MySQL are perfect together. Many people only know PHP due to it's close relationship with MySQL. We spent the last 1.5 years learning PHP basics and a few other advanced topics. But now we'll investigate why one might use a database and how to integrate it into a web site using PHP. We'll meet at 10AM in the Alps room of the Giant of Willow Grove.

We'll refer to this text for MySQL ideas. Buy it from Amazon (and benefit PACS!):

PHP and MySQL For Dynamic Web Sites

Buy the first text we covered from Amazon (and benefit PACS!):

Learning PHP 5

Show an example from Learning PHP 5:

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