[PHP] Ideas

Quite frankly, I've began learning PHP and although, no matter how much you read about the subject, you'll never learn anything about it until you try programming scripts yourself. Well, I've fallen a bit short of that as I have no ideas on what to do.

Any ideas? *hint* I like a challenge... sometimes... ;p

Start off with a simple "Hello world", so some for loops, do some variables, functions, classes ect. Just start off simple, otherwise you will make mistakes. Even on small things, such as forgetting a semi colon.

If you want more of a challenge, try making a contact form with php validation

(06-22-2011 08:50 PM)fatman1 Wrote:  Start off with a simple "Hello world", so some for loops, do some variables, functions, classes ect. Just start off simple, otherwise you will make mistakes. Even on small things, such as forgetting a semi colon.

Already did that.

(06-23-2011 06:41 AM)Jason Wrote:  If you want more of a challenge, try making a contact form with php validation

That sounds like fun, I think I'll give that a go.

I remember when I was learning PHP, the first thing I did was create a profile system with $_GET

I was so proud of it. Later I moved on to saving data into a database and then went from there.

something i found valuable when learning php was to go through a tutorial and learning exactly how it all came together and what each part did. Greatly helped my understanding, then tried it, edited bits to see if it still worked and so on.

Well, so far, I've just been messing around with the examples that I've found (I've read multiple tutorials) and than, I'll "experiment" by change things within the script and add/removing parts to see what happens. Pretty much, breaking the script, figuring out why and how I broke it, and than fixing it.

Now I'm starting to move onto things such as modify other peoples work etc.

If i rember on old times i think my first project was an litte cms for our class-mades
We had so much fun and two of then started programming just because of me :-D