sleduc on February 24th, 2010

Resources

List of Text Editors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PHP_editors

Basic Tutorials

Very good basic tutorial to get started with some nice scripts to run

http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/php/
http://inpics.net/phpbasics.html

Basic overview with extended reference to the php language options

http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/

Script Samples

Huge list of pre-built php scripts

http://www.hotscripts.com/category/php/

Questions From Class

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sleduc on February 18th, 2010
 
icon for podpress  Podcast Video [2:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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sleduc on February 3rd, 2010

Sample Site Online

scottleduc.org

Downloads

Wordpress_psd2css_template file

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sleduc on January 1st, 2010

Chapter 1: Adding Life to Web Pages with PHP

Goals

Learn the basic syntax and commands of PHP

Terms

HTML
PHP
Web Form
Browser
<?php ?>
Variable
Quotes
Echo
$_POST
Web Server
Array
Superglobal
Mail()

Concepts

HTML on Client side
PHP on Server side
PHP Syntax and command structure

Resources

Graphical Secure File Transfer Applications

Fugu (Mac)
WinSCP (Windows)

SSH (Secure Shell) Client

Terminal (Mac) - is already on all Macs
PuTTY (Windows and Unix)

HTML Editor

Kompozer

phpMyAdmin

Hulk Server Access

Head [...]

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sleduc on February 28th, 2009

Make a folder named “surf” on your desktop.
Make another folder named “media” inside your surf folder.
Download the surf.html file into your surf folder.

http://hulk.osd.wednet.edu/sleduc/surf/

Download the surf.gif file into your media folder.

http://hulk.osd.wednet.edu/sleduc/surf/media/surf.gif

Open surf.html in Dreamweaver.
View the source code and look to see how the div tags work in the CSS at the top of the page and [...]

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sleduc on February 25th, 2009

 
icon for podpress  Publishing to Hulk [4:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This screencast is for students working through the Head First HTML and CSS book.  Student from other classes may find it useful, because the process for publishing is the same for everyone.

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sleduc on December 12th, 2008

Example Mock-up

Creating a paper protototype is the first step in building a web site.  A List Apart, a web site for, “For people who make websites”, is a  great place to learn about web design and development.
Shawn Medero published an article on Paper Prototyping. Itn highlights the importance of creating paper mock-ups with great examples.  [...]

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sleduc on November 24th, 2008

 
icon for podpress  Fixing 403 Error [1:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

If you cannot access your hulk.osd.wednet.edu account because of a 403 error, follow the instructions in this video.  You will use the “chmod” command to establish privileges to see your files from the Internet.  It should fix the permissions.  If you would like to learn more about the command line controls of your Hulk read [...]

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