<x-flowed>At 02:21 PM 12/15/00 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Wolzak) wrote:
> > Eric,
> > Now for the big questions. How hard is it to learn PHP, and how many
> > people here can write a page in it already? Also, do we have to use a
> > database?
>
>I think it is not that difficult,i used it also for a small project
>creating Pages based on a query from a mysql- Database. I am not a
>programmer and have "only basic" programming skills. And i don't
>know how dirty the code was ;)
Eric,
Note: SourceForge.Net site code is now backended onto PostgreSQL, in place
of MySQL.
>IMHO It is not more difficult than scripting in linux or writing
>javascript. But it is a new language so for any "newbie" it take
>some time . At www.php.net you can find good documentation.
Thanks for the link. I'm going to take a look at it.
>I hope to create a small page in the next days for demonstration
>purpose.
Good. It may enlighten me on how to create my own php-xml entry.
BTW, I just made a link to your test page from our temporary home page.
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ericw/browser.php
My junkbuster proxy is lying to your browser test, but that happens with
all of the sites I visit.
>To your second question, You can see an xml document as a small Database.
>When you look at Docbook documents you have a title a chapter and so on.
>Exactly this structure is it, you can use for your pages, which don't
>have to be to complicated First page from a faq for example selecting all
>where paragraph is question display
You're talking about meta-data right?
>Selected one of the items the next page
>select the page where paragraph is "selected question"
>and display the answer .
>So for all the different Faq answers we create 1 page.
Similar to this SF FAQ query example?
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1502&group_id=1
>If the whole Documentation should be maintained as a Database is
>another question. For some parts of the Documentation it could be
>an advantage to have a Database. Allthough you can see xml documents as
>a database as well. I 'll think a little about my answer :)
Ok.
Are any of these books worth the paper their written on?
* Designing Web Usability by Nielsen, Jakob
* Beginning XML by Hunter, David / et al.
* The XML Handbook, Third Edition By Goldfarb, Charles F. /
Prescod, Paul
* XSLT Programmer's Reference by By Kay, Michael
* Php Fast and Easy Web Development by Meloni, Julie C.
* Professional PHP Programming By Scollo, Chris / Castagnetto,
Jesus / Schumann, Sascha / Veliath, Deepak
>sorry if somethings are a little "foreign spoken" . I'm writing a lot
>german letters at the momen :)
No apologies necessary. :)
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