Jon,
Thanks. That sets me off very nicely; I'll be on my way to the link you
give very shortly.
Joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Haworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 4:39 PM
Subject: [wdvltalk] PHP (was: RE: Javascript code)
> Hi Joseph,
>
> > I am in serious danger of understanding this.
>
> heh, nice :-)
>
> > If the host has PHP enabled is it really as simple
> > as a piece of code like that, which I would put
> > (where?).
>
> It really is. You can drop PHP anywhere you like in an HTML document.
>
> Here's a complete, ready to copy-n-paste version:
>
> ---start---
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>WhatsTheDate.com</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <h1>Welcome to WhatsTheDate.com!</h1>
> <?php
> echo "<p>The date is ". date("jS F Y"). ".</p>";
> ?>
> </body>
> </html>
> ----end----
>
> > And PHP is ideal for what general kind of thing?
>
> It's perfect for building small to medium scale websites which need some
> sort of database backend - think of it as the glue between the website
users
> see as HTML pages and the data stored in the database. You don't *need* a
> database, and you can do lots of funky things without one, but that's the
> most common application.
>
> You may notice when you're surfing that some pages have a ? in the URL...
> everything before this is the address of the page, and everything after
this
> is information you're giving to the page.
>
> The idea is you can have one page called "products.php", and call it with
<a
> href="products.php?id=23">the amazing foomatic!</a> - products.php then
> knows you want the description of product #23, goes to the database, pulls
> out all the info, inserts it into the page, and *then* sends it to the
> browser.
>
> The online manual is fantastic and you should definitely read the
> introduction chapter:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php
>
> I've found PHP to have a very gentle learning curve and a very low barrier
> to entry. It's really easy to get up and running - spend an afternoon
> playing with it and I bet you'll be suprised at what you achieve.
>
> > I am particularly interested because I am planning to offer
> > spoken verse on my site - I'll wait till you've all stopped
> > laughing - and need to know how to control the whole process
> > for the 'pay up' files.
>
> It's pretty straightforward, but get a handle on basic stuff before trying
> out e-commerce :-)
>
> Cheers
> Jon
>
>
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