| Re: help wanted! - need to convert to php [message #172420 is a reply to message #172419] |
Thu, 17 February 2011 08:21   |
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"richard" wrote in message news:vly8ffy9470j$(dot)dlg(at)evanplatt(dot)sux...
> http://1littleworld.net/oldies/test.html
> I am willing to hire someone to write the basic script that would
> convert this monster into a more manageable item.
> What I would really like, is a 3 column list of the names under
> each of the tabs. When the user clicks on a name, a box appears
> in the window (not a new window) that displays the rest of the
> information.
I'm not really interested in taking on this as a job, but I think it would
be a good learning experience for you to work on this a little bit at a time
and then add increasingly fancy stuff.
One nice thing about PHP is that you can take an HTML document and change
the file extension to PHP, and it will still appear and work the same. But
then you can add the PHP programming to automate the repetitive stuff and
create the HTML document seen by the user from a database.
I've played around with both Perl and PHP, and also SQLite, since sometime
in September, and I've had a lot of "fun" figuring out how to make things
work. You can check my posts here as well as on comp.lang.perl.misc to see
where I had problems and how I solved them. My goal was different from yours
but some of the basics will still apply. I am not especially concerned with
the visual aspects of a website, but more so its simplicity and
functionality.
As a start, you can create a database using a PHP script which would best be
tested on a local server such as xampp. Setting that up and getting it to
work will be a challenge in itself. You can also create, view, and modify an
SQLite3 database using a utility called:
http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/
Then the PHP code will need to execute queries based on the user input to
read the data such as song title, artist, and record ID, then you can have
it generate the HTML for presentation to the user.
Try making an outline or pseudocode to describe just what you want, and
maybe make some simple HTML pages for the visual presentation you want.
Good luck.
Paul
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