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:

February 18, 2012: Sitemaps are files that help search engines understand how your site is laid out and how often it should be scanned for changes. We'll see what sitemaps contain, ways to generate different versions of sitemaps, and how to do it automatically. The slideset and script code are available from a download in the right column.

Our NEXT Next Meeting:

Take a minute now to vote for the topic to be covered at the next meeting by using the script at this location.

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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