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, September 25: When we broke in the Spring, we had loaded our test data into our test database. We'll start seeing how to access that database from a PHP script and integrate it's contents to our page output. The first script will be one that does a backup of the data. Look for us 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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