Author Topic: The PHP thread (Read 7062 times)

SideSwipe · « **on:** September 21, 2003, 02:14:23 PM »

We all know how important PHP is these days in web design. From simple PHP includes to forums, PHP is becoming more and more important. Hopefully, some of us can share information here. Anything from useful tidbits of code to how-to's would be well at home in this thread, so post away people!

Carigamers · « **on:** September 21, 2003, 02:14:23 PM »

hiddenagenda · « **Reply #1 on:** September 21, 2003, 05:16:14 PM »

hmm
Nice thread side.
I'll post some stuff soon immc:)

SideSwipe · « **Reply #2 on:** September 21, 2003, 06:49:18 PM »

Thanks hidden.

I'll start the ball rolling here. I recently decided to start getting into PHP, so I'll be sharing some of the more useful things I learn here. The first bit of coding is probably the most useful on personal home pages and one of the most frequently used implementations of PHP. It allows you to include one page inside another. A good use is in a menubar, so when you add a new item to the menu, you don't need to update every page on your site - rather, you just update the menu page, and it is included into the others! Very much the same as what an SSI (Server Side Include) does with SHTML, but why use that when you can use PHP?

Now, the page to be included does not have the header tags, nor the <body> or <html> tags. It only has the code that you need included. So for instance, if you want to include a table into several pages of your site, the page with the table ONLY has the code for the table - nothing else.

Here is the code for the include:

<? include ("filename.php") ; ?>

When this code is placed into your page (as an example let's use index.php), the contents of filename.php will be included into index.php. Useful isn't it? Don't forget though, your filenames must have the .php extension, or your server will not process your PHP tags. Not all servers support PHP, so make sure yours does before making a website using PHP.

Anonymous · « **Reply #3 on:** September 22, 2003, 04:23:31 PM »

PHP is much better because everything is done on the server side..And the script will be harder to get,thus make a safer website....

hiddenagenda · « **Reply #4 on:** September 22, 2003, 04:51:06 PM »

Yupz
Daz some thing nitrate teach my mc back in the day oui.
So basically the site interprets it as html?

Carigamers · « **Reply #4 on:** September 22, 2003, 04:51:06 PM »

SideSwipe · « **Reply #5 on:** September 22, 2003, 07:37:34 PM »

Well, when you go to view the page, the server processes the PHP and outputs it in plain old HTML. If you check the source code of a website that uses PHP, you won't see the PHP tags because they have already been processed. For instance, all the includes have already been included into the HTML of the page you're viewing, instead of the include tag.

Anonymous · « **Reply #6 on:** September 22, 2003, 09:13:20 PM »

Yes you are right sideswipe,if you to see the html output,well basically you're looking at it now,just right click on the page and go View Source or View Page Source and you will see the html output the server generate.

Guru · « **Reply #7 on:** October 04, 2003, 09:18:04 PM »

yup all of gatt runs off php

including gattopia and gattopia beyond

hiddenagenda · « **Reply #8 on:** October 05, 2003, 10:47:25 AM »

Gattopia too?
hmm
/me gonna try out this gattopia on his own.
I find the opensource for it on sourceforge i belive it was...

unimatrix001 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 30, 2003, 12:09:10 PM »

i need tuh get into php oui... i still here using html an java. aye... btw anyone kno how to use vb forms in a webpage? there is a way.... i have seen it b4, but i cant remember where

Evangelion_01 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 30, 2003, 04:09:57 PM »

Oh YES. Good thread here bring SS.

Was planning to start learning PHP this year anyway. Take notes now IMMC. I dun know very much about the whole programming aspect but post away. Notes and shading IWMC

W1nTry · « **Reply #11 on:** June 23, 2004, 02:03:14 PM »

The real power behind PHP is its ability to interface with DB such as MySQL, yes it acts like many other languages that we use C, C++, etc. and yes its virtually invisible to the client since everything is interpreted as HTML, for those interested in PHP i'd suggest downloading the PHP manual from online, it has all the functionality you could possibly ask for. Additionally in each new release of PHP they update the manual, so if you download PHP you already have it, have fun

Carigamers · « **Reply #11 on:** June 23, 2004, 02:03:14 PM »

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