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Top beginner projects for php & MySQL

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03-26-2010, 04:21 PM
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I would suggest a basic cms with a admin panel and a front end.

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03-26-2010, 04:57 PM
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I disagree, a CMS is a combination of pretty much every programming concept mashed together. While it seems to be the popular thing to advise, this is not suitable for a beginner who is just learning each concept. Putting the concepts together will really only be useful for someone who already knows each concept.

If you are a beginner, think of a practical use for each concept you just learned. You may have a to learn a thing or two more to complete that particular application but that is OK. Once you've learned everything then you might benefit form trying to make a CMS, but even then I think it is a complete waste of time.

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VG, while the overall CMS might be a big mash up of programming concepts, often there are clearly discrete and with a CMS you are able to start small and build upon it, learning each concept as you go. It is not necessarily a bad thing to be thrown into the deep end, either...

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In my intro to PHP class, our professor had us write minesweeper.

I found there was a fair amount of logic, as well as the use of sessions, some math, etc.

I liked it as a beginner project. It got me comfortable with a lot of the essentials. POST & GET variables, sessions, error checking, calculating when a user has won/lost, multi dimensional arrays, etc etc

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How about a calculator? for an absolute beginner programme... take [x1] number then add some buttons which will add, multiply, divide and minus against number[x2]

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My very first project was Hello World. I did it with BASIC and Pascal eons ago.

The first projects I made in PHP is setting up a webpage with the formats of the fonts. Then I arrange the fonts then the background of the webpage. We then started programming by making a simple calculator as was told by Chris.

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My first PHP script was a guestbook that used a file to store the data. Later I converted it to use MySQL. After that project I started to love PHP and coded much larger projects like a CMS.

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My first php project was a "hello world " :P .. it's when I was in grade 7 hehe ..

mm but the Next one was about a simple login form and a page to retrieve books from a database ..

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This thread made me wonder, can do complex programs with PHP alone or do we need a more flexible programming language? I'm thinking about nested loops or cases.

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php 5/mysql programming for the absolute beginner by Andy Harris is also a great book to get started in php. It comes with a cd with source code and tutorials for a simple cms and a a few games if i recall. Worth a read!

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