I’ve devoted a lot of time to learning PHP this week and seem to have covered a lot of ground. Building on what I learned last week about variables and conditional logic, I worked my way through working with HTML forms, programming loops, string manipulation and functions.
The tutorial on HTML forms was particularly useful as I will be creating a form for my site. I completed the practical exercises without any problems and am confident I will now be able to build my own form. Before I can get it fully functional I will need to look at working with databases (as I want it to send the information to and store it in a database) but I feel I now know enough to begin building the site.
Therefore I have completed the design work and have already started the build.
Programming loops were a little harder to get my head round at first and I did have to go over these tutorials a couple of times before it started to sink in, but I did get the practicals working in the end.
String manipulation and functions also took a bit longer to sink in, and I think this is an area I will need to revisit. So far I have only been using the tutorials on homeandlearn again, but as before I will use my other resources to ensure I have a good understanding of these aspects of PHP.
Next week I will need to concentrate on building my site as the deadline is getting closer, so I intend to use what I have learnt so far to make a start and refer back to the tutorials as and when I need to.
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