Re: Questions

--- Josh G <josh@gfunk007.com> wrote: > Any of you guys care to enlighten this fellow any > further than me? Thank you for your reply. It helps a lot. Thanks to everyone who took this effort to reply to me. I just try to learn and taklking to experienced people seems a good wayto learn. > Please reply to the list, not me :) OK. > > Hello everybody, > > > > I would like to ask you for some help with PHP. I > am a > > newbie both to the list and to PHP. I try to learn > > from the books and manuals, but there are some > things > > I do mnot understand and I can't read it anywhere > > inthe books. > > > > Please take a moment and reply to my mail. I know > that > > such problems as I have may seem lame to most of > you, > > descent programmers, but I am really desperate to > > learn. Unfortunately I am not a programmer > > byprofesion. > > > > Let me list the problems I have. > > > > 1. I registered my domain and I input the right > DNs > > numbers. After I uploaded html file index.html > onto > > the server, using ftp program, everything was > fine. > > However, I also uploaded file called test.html. > After > > I typed in my domain url address with /test.html > the > > file was not working. What do I do wrong? > > Sounds like an installation problem, I can't really > help > there. I follow the instructions, and if they fail > I'm usually > stuffed ;-) No idea what may be wrong... I will try a couple of times more, maybe there is a solution and reason why server returns with an error message. > > > > 2. Now on with PHP... I tried to write php scripts > > inside html files... Simple scripts with <?php > .... ?> > > Can I do that? Will it work? I think php program > is > > installed on the server I am using, but the php > seems > > not to work. What do I do wrong? > > Should work, don't know the problem. Try having a > script called test.php that consists only of > > <?php phpinfo(); ?> What will phpinfo() return with? Will it be information if the server can support php? > then point your browser at > http://yourdomain.com/test.php > and see what happens. I will try that. Thanks, it seems a good test. > > 3. Now suppose I write a seperate php script as a > > seperate file, like test.php. How do I refer to it > > from html file in order to make the php script > work? > > And can I start my web page directly with php? If > > sohow? > > Not sure I understand the question. You just need > links > to the pages as if they were ordinary html. Suppose I have index.html and I have test.php... If I type in my browser http://mydomain.com/ I get the result of index.html. How can I make a php file work? Can I make a link or something? Or if I just want php script to work within a htmp file? How can I do that? Or you > can > access one script from another by using include(); Aha... So if I have index.html, I can execute the contents of test.php by writing: include(test.php) within html file code? Is that correct? > I think you need to read through the first few > sections of > the php manual, at http://www.php.net/ as it covers > a lot > of these issues. I will 'dig' deeper, thanks for the suggestion. You mean php tutorial they have at www.php.net? Right? > > 4. What program or editor do you people use in > order > > to simply "write" or "code" html and php? Till now > I > > was using Netscape Composer for simple html > editing. > > But I am sure there are some programming tools... > I've > > heard there is something like JBuilder, but some > > friends of mine tell me it is too powerful tool. > Do > > you agree? What programming tools would you > recommend > > for me to code php? What programs do you use? > > Oh no! This here is a religious issue, get's asked > every few > days, and there's no answer. Use whatever you like. So far I use nothing for php. I would like to write somethign in php... I would like to see the result of even very simple script, like "Hello, this is me." > Some > peope love vi and emacs (unix), some love homesite, > textpad, > or (myself included) ultraedit on windows. Do you think I could use Notepad? Just to start with? And if so, how do I save for .php extension? > > 5. I would like to have a link on my web page that > > when I move my mouse cursor on it, it changes and > > becomes, for example, underlines or bold or > changes > > color. How can I do that? How do I do that in php? > > This is more a html problem thant a php problem, but > you > need to use stylesheets... here's an example, paste > it into > a html page and play around with it... Geee, thanks for this sample... I will test it for sure. > <html> > <head> > <style type="text/css"> > <!-- > > a {color:blue; text-decoration:none; } > a:hover {color:#ff8080; > text-decoration:underline; } > > --></style> > </script> > </head> > <body> > <a href="foo.html">this will change colour in > explorer</a>. > </body> > </html> Thank you. Now I need to test it a little... and see the results. Thanks for providing this sample. > > 6. How can I refer to data base records? If I want > to > > store date or get data and print it out... Is it > only > > using cgi and FORM tags? Are there any other ways > todo > > that? > > This one's a biggie... I know... :-( Methinks you should master > some of > the simplre things first, then ask this one by > itself ;-) Good suggestion... Some of my questions may seem 'odd', but I simply want to learn and ask... Thank you for your patience... > Another tip... The more specific the question, the > better, > longer answers you'll recieve. Sure... I will try to be more specific. > > I would very much appreciate, if people like you, > good > > programmers could help me and just reply to my > points. > > Please elaborate, the more you write, teh better I > can > > understand. It would mean a lot to me if someone > could > > comment or 'enlighten' me. There are things I > can't > > find in books and tutorials. > > > > Thank you and I await your replies. > > > > Jericho > > > > > > -- > 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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/