 | View Full Version : Your first ever PHP Application? chillipc 07-30-2006, 04:22 PM just wondering what was peoples first ever php application that they wrote whilest they where learning it and how long did it take you? mine was well i am still learning but it's good to hear what people have to say lol and what problems they ran into when creating it etc.. LancerBrad 07-30-2006, 04:42 PM <?php // Hello World? $var = 'Hello World!'; echo($var); ?> Classic first. ThatScriptGuy 07-30-2006, 06:37 PM Mine was...Hmmm.....If I recall correctly, my first was just an image rotator. I was trying to learn about arrays, so I manually made the array with filenames and then displayed a random image from the array on page load..... Good times... arkin 07-30-2006, 06:43 PM Mine was a basic user system for a gambling site run by a friends dad. I got a 5% payout each month, was nice. Christian 07-30-2006, 06:43 PM Basicly, more or less like LancerBrad's example. :D j/k I think it was a newsletter sender script. :) EighthStudio 07-30-2006, 07:04 PM My first was a basic News Viewing script while I was learning to work with DataBases. MGCJerry 07-30-2006, 09:28 PM A child roller for my RPG. Took about 3 hours. http://www.2thextreme.org/Utilities/ChildGen Just a note... The mortality rate on this thing is insane. ;) horizon 07-30-2006, 10:14 PM My first PHP programming was this: <HTML> <BODY> <form method="post" action="test.php"> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="test_form"> <input type="text" name="full_name"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"> </form> </BODY> </HTML> Then, from test.php file, <?php if (isset($_GET['action']) || isset($_POST['action'])) { $action = (isset($_POST['action'])) ? (stripslashes(trim($_POST['action']))) : ""; } else { $action = ""; } if ($action == "") { $action = "test_form"; } if ($action == "test_form") { $full_name = $_POST['full_name']); $submit = $_POST['submit']; if (empty($full_name) || empty($submit)) { die ('Error when entering your full name.'); } else { echo $full_name; } } ;) null 07-30-2006, 11:33 PM <?php phpinfo(); ?> ;) chillipc 07-31-2006, 03:37 AM some good posts there and some funny classic ones too, so roughtly how long do you think it would take me to learn php if i study it 2-4 hours a week 5 days a week? i have many books etc.. from html to php for dummies and the web wizzard guide. ThatScriptGuy 07-31-2006, 04:02 AM Longer than the number you've got in your head -- that's for sure... 4 hours a week....4 weeks a month...16 hours a month.......quite awhile. If you stick to your regimen, you should be able to pump out some basic code quickly after a month.....Remember not to get ahead of yourself. Don't skip strings and concatenation and go straight into Smarty multi dimensional arrays..... Just stick with it til you've got it.... fozzy 07-31-2006, 08:59 AM I probably did a 'hello world' script, but the first 'real' script I tried to write was a script to: 1. find all files in a directory 2. output the list of files to the screen as links (the directory help pictures) I even asked for help with it on this forum:) I think I also got help from a friend on the script. I was really hopeless at the start but I got better and I got my current job because I know PHP:) mycws 07-31-2006, 11:37 AM <?php phpinfo(); ?> ;) Haha. That was mine too! mkostadinovic 07-31-2006, 02:06 PM <?php phpinfo(); ?> B-) mine too! carolinahosting 07-31-2006, 04:17 PM My first was a auction written in php that uses mysql for the DB. I based my auction off everysoft's perl version that I worked on (community support) for several years. I was pretty good with perl so learning php took just a good book and a weekend to read it. riverpast 07-31-2006, 04:33 PM My first was my shopping cart. tim_w 07-31-2006, 05:12 PM <?php // Hello World? $var = 'Hello World!'; echo($var); ?> Classic first. Ditto that. Oh the good days. icex 07-31-2006, 10:06 PM my first was a full CMS for my counter-strike clan.. looking back, really bad coding and a lot of security flaws lol MrMan 08-01-2006, 10:55 PM Mine was a DVD site. Users can add to cart, delete, checkout, as well as a search function to search by title, movie star. Sessions were kept in a database. Took two weeks, but I already knew HTML and have a C++ programming background. It was also pretty easy because the database handled most of the work. azizny 08-02-2006, 01:10 AM My first project in PHP and its still pretty big if you look at it. Most coding I learnt from O'relly, google search and some advanced coders: http://www.holdshort.com it was for a client and charged him $3000 since it was my beginning. Peace, Devin-VST 08-02-2006, 08:47 AM my first was a full CMS for my counter-strike clan.. looking back, really bad coding and a lot of security flaws lol I knew someone here had to mention counter-strike...my first was some script to show game stats on a webpage...lol Renard Fin 08-02-2006, 11:29 AM Hum... first ever application in PHP (serious app... not just snippets) i'd say it was a community management website. When I remember .... I wasnt even using the $HTTP_POST_VARS/$HTTP_GET_VARS arrays but plain variables .... lot of security flaws in this application and it would need a lot of tweak to check back ......... but was good old times :P Then I moved to something more serious, to a CMS i'm writing now in object and reccursion $var->my_wrapper->my_object->my_method(); :D and thinking to update it to a MVC right now ... kinda having fun in this :) orangecube 08-02-2006, 02:28 PM B-) mine too! And mine too, followed by the hello world :) tree-host 08-02-2006, 03:04 PM Mine was a simple script to pull data from mysql into cvs format so i could get a vb application to get the info. ruski 08-03-2006, 12:33 AM Best way to start learning is edit other peoples applications, mine was a control panel for stat viewing of an online game horizon 08-03-2006, 12:48 AM Oh ! boy it's now turning into a first-edited subject. :) Mine was, (and still is), under a photo gallery and on an e-commerce script. Lev 08-03-2006, 02:57 AM Mine was this online RPG game with the source available to the public although it wasn't great coding style. I learned a ton from editting it and creating new features for it and stuff like that. Confined 08-03-2006, 03:11 AM Mine was a fully fledged photo gallery for a church. lol second was a hierarchy based client/project management system using mysql for backend data. Czaries 08-04-2006, 07:03 PM my first was a full CMS for my counter-strike clan.. looking back, really bad coding and a lot of security flaws lol Mine too... That's kind of funny, actually. I made a whole user system with profiles showing pictures and computer stats and everything. Knowing what I know now, the system I built way back when was _horribly_ coded, but that was back when PHP3 was new... PyroSols 08-04-2006, 07:40 PM I had just started out learning perl, when I someone mentioned some language called PHP. So I thought I'd check it out, the ability to freely mix code and html really simplified things a great deal. I ported a rating script I'd written in perl to PHP. That was my first php application also the first time I used a database to store information. My perl script depended on a flatfile. This was a while back, php 4 had just been released. dinesh 08-05-2006, 05:04 PM <?php phpinfo(); ?> ;) Mine too ;) Dan Zelniker 08-05-2006, 07:24 PM My first code was <?php phpinfo(); ?> and my first php system was file upload system:) horizon 08-05-2006, 07:37 PM and my first php system was file upload system How sad for me ... this was one of my last one actually. :) firestarter 08-06-2006, 12:37 AM phpinfo for me ;) ochiba 08-14-2006, 09:59 AM true first: hello world. first without a tutorial: a file uploader. battye 08-14-2006, 10:05 AM My first program was a modification to a lyrics script called ContentMonster. My MOD grabbed the last few (I think 5) lyrics from the database and displayed them as links. :) |