Re: project ideas

Well, before you even start programming. READ the HTTP 1.1 RFC. Understand it. <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html> Then you could do a simple link redirector or something: Store real URLs in a database table, or a PHP array. Then have your link director create a url like this: http://somewhere.com/redirect.php?item=1. Have $array[1] = 'http://slashdot.org/'; $array[2] = 'http://freshmeat.net/'; $array[3] = 'http://smackdown.com/'; etc... Then have redirect.php handle the variable "$item", look up it's value, then send php header()'s to re-direct to the correct URL. You will learn how to re-direct in the HTTP rfc, they are the 300 level errors with "Location: " headers attached. This might be a good project. Anyway, hope you have some good ideas? take care, -jeremy brand --- "Jerry Lake" <jerryl@europa.com> > wrote: >Does anyone have any good project ideas for a beginning programmer. I've >gone through many of the PHP tutorials and found them useful, but I think >that if I start tying more things from scratch I'll reinforce things that >I'm beginning to learn. and if anyone has any decent ideas that will help me >master web development oriented programming, I'd appreciate the input. > >Regards, >J. > > > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net == _______________________________________________________________________ GnuPG Fingerprint: 9F5E 95E0 1CC2 E054 84EA 6099 8ACD 9DBA D2C0 5EA9 _ http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more __ _____________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Private, Free E-mail Now! your_name@smackdown.com http://www.smackdown.com <spacer>