Final Week

In the final week of my SMLP I have mostly been concentrating on learning how to set up a MySQL database and connect to it using PHP.

This caused me a few problems initially, which was largely down to the software I was using. After spending hours reading through my resources and trying different things, I realised the software I was using had been reverting to old versions of my script, rather than saving the changes. However, I was able to find some more reliable software and once I had this up and running I was able to connect to the database no problem.

Getting my form to work was then fairly straight forward as I had already covered this in the previous week. I didn’t have any problems adding records to the database.

I also went through the tutorials on security as I thought this would be useful to know, but I was conscious of allowing myself enough time to build my site. Therefore I didn’t spend as much time on this as I would have liked to, although I understood the basics of it.

If I have time I would like to go back and look at the remaining tutorials on homeandlearn which I skipped in order to cover databases before the deadline and thus complete my site on time. These include working with files in PHP, date and time functions, and some more advanced tutorials on user authentication, a survey/poll application and how to build a forum.