| Re: help wanted! - need to convert to php [message #172421 is a reply to message #172420] |
Thu, 17 February 2011 09:04   |
Luuk
Messages: 329
Registered: September 2010
Karma:
|
Senior Member |
|
|
On 17-02-11 09:21, P E Schoen wrote:
> "richard" wrote in message news:vly8ffy9470j$(dot)dlg(at)evanplatt(dot)sux...
>
>> 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"
.....
--
Luuk
|
|
|
|
Calendar
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
]