| Re: help wanted! - need to convert to php [message #172422 is a reply to message #172421] |
Thu, 17 February 2011 09:08   |
Luuk
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On 17-02-11 10:04, Luuk wrote:
> On 17-02-11 09:21, P E Schoen wrote:
>> "richard" wrote in message news:vly8ffy9470j$(dot)dlg(at)evanplatt(dot)sux...
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>>> http://1littleworld.net/oldies/test.html
>>
>>> I am willing to hire someone to write the basic script that would
>>> convert this monster into a more manageable item.
>>
>>> What I would really like, is a 3 column list of the names under
>>> each of the tabs. When the user clicks on a name, a box appears
>>> in the window (not a new window) that displays the rest of the
>>> information.
>>
>> I'm not really interested in taking on this as a job, but I think it
>> would be a good learning experience for you to work on this a little bit
>> at a time and then add increasingly fancy stuff.
>>
>> One nice thing about PHP is that you can take an HTML document and
>> change the file extension to PHP, and it will still appear and work the
>> same. But then you can add the PHP programming to automate the
>> repetitive stuff and create the HTML document seen by the user from a
>> database.
>>
>> I've played around with both Perl and PHP, and also SQLite, since
>> sometime in September, and I've had a lot of "fun" figuring out how to
>> make things work. You can check my posts here as well as on
>> comp.lang.perl.misc to see where I had problems and how I solved them.
>> My goal was different from yours but some of the basics will still
>> apply. I am not especially concerned with the visual aspects of a
>> website, but more so its simplicity and functionality.
>>
>> As a start, you can create a database using a PHP script which would
>> best be tested on a local server such as xampp. Setting that up and
>> getting it to work will be a challenge in itself. You can also create,
>> view, and modify an SQLite3 database using a utility called:
>> http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Then the PHP code will need to execute queries based on the user input
>> to read the data such as song title, artist, and record ID, then you can
>> have it generate the HTML for presentation to the user.
>>
>> Try making an outline or pseudocode to describe just what you want, and
>> maybe make some simple HTML pages for the visual presentation you want.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Paul
>
> For these lines you do not actually NEED a database..
> A simple textfile could do also...
>
> "title", "title2", "title3"
> "A Fool In Love", "Ike and Tina Turner", "The Way You Love Me"
> "A Kissin' And A Twistin'", "Fabian", "Long Before"
> ....
>
>
Obviously you need some more fiels than these 3, but ....
;)
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Luuk
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