MIST 5990 - Zlatko Unger's PHP Experience

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

I can hear an echo

I have been trying to fix the UGA SMIS website (www.ugasmis.org) for the past couple of hours. Learning PHP thourgh this process I discovered the "echo" tag. Through displaying variables on the screen by this process, I was able to pinpoint my error.

Anyway, I hope my book comes in the mail tomorrow, so I can get some real work done.

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Finally, an update

Due to some problems with my inital book order I was not able to get much done.

I reordered the book through Amazon today. Hopefully, it should come in by this Wednesday.

The book is PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites (ISBN: 0321336577) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321336577/




From my understanding this book will allow me to create dynamic websites as well as teach me how to access SQL databases through PHP scripts. I read a lot of praises coming from those that thought themselves PHP with this book. I’m sure that if I don’t like it I can try out PHP for the World Wide Web by the same author. It does not focus on MySQL as much.

During this ordeal, I have been reading the following websites in order to get an understanding of PHP:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PHP

http://www.phpfreaks.com/


My goal is to read the book and get a good understanding of the language and develop a website using PHP on the web. Then, I will start making assignments for myself with the materials learned put into consideration.

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Hello World.

This is testing post for the my MIST 5990 class. Introduction posting to come soon.