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:

May 19, 2012: Last month we saw how to use a custom error page as one way to redirect visitors from an obsolete URL to a replacement page This month we'll see how to do a redirect by using the .htaccess file available on Linux servers. The .htaccess method gives us not only a more powerful way to do a redirect but also offers many more features to do things like set a preferred URL for a site with multiple domain names; stop other sites from referencing your images; block referrer spam; provide nice looking URLs without querystrings; etc.

Look for us at 10AM in the Alps room of the Giant of Willow Grove.

We'll refer to PHP and MySQL For Dynamic Web Sites for MySQL ideas. Buy it from Amazon (and benefit PACS!):

Buy the first text we covered, Learning PHP 5, from Amazon (and benefit PACS!):

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