[Sussex] Re: Kylix and now PHP!

[Gareth Ablett]

> These are some of the main reasons for my recent "train" of questions
about
> web development. i.e. (no pun intended) my ??? a month or two ago
about open
> source opposition to M$ f********. Well, I am now happy to have a go
at
> designing a web site with either quanta or bluefish, and while I sort
of,
> vaguely understand what PHP is about (after I asked the question
today, I
> found their site, but it seemed about as clear as mud!), and I now
understand
> that I will be producing "static" pages/site.

Any site like this will be hard at first to understand, and tbe I find
the 
Microsoft sites even harder to understand if you want to find some info
about 
a product etc.
 
> But, it might be nice, in the rather distant future, to produce a site
with a
> few "bells and whistles", and my rather miniscule knowledge suggests
that
> "java" is looking favourite to do that, but as with my PHP question, I
will
> have to find out, "what it can do for me, rather than what I can do
for it!".

Just for the record I have known people to know nothing about PHP and
within 
in a week to be producing dynamic pages with ease.

> Anyway, after the "sweeping generalisation" bit, I recall/notice the
bit on
> the SLUG site where Gareth has credited PHP at the bottom. Well, after
> reading Marks' e-mail, it occured to me that the site is pretty
"static".
> 
> So, which bits of it have been produced using PHP? (even though I now
> understand that I don't need to know anything about it, to accomplish
what I
> would like to do!)

The part of the site that is dynamic is that all the text you see on the
page
And all the menus etc. Are held in a database.

The site also has a login page allowing people with the correct login
details 
To update content on the site.

To show you this to a point if you go to http://www.zoomer2k.co.uk/ my
personal 
Site I am using almost exactly the same files to run the page all be it
there 
is the template file that is static and different. 
The main thing that differs between the 2 sites is the content held in
the 
database.


Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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