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10/13/2005

Show #53: PHP course begins - Week 1 - Lesson #1a

Filed under: Radio, Courses, PHP101 — Jowl @ 4:51 pm

First we opened up a new document in Pspad then we went to week #1 course reading material and started to read the information on that page. We then wrote down our first PHP script in the Pspad and the code for that script was:

PHP:

1 

2 <?php

3 // Does my host have PHP, and if so, what version?

4 printf(“Your host is running PHP version %s”,phpversion());

5 ?>

6

Then once we finished writing that code we uploaded it into our server via FTP and I found that my code was wrong and had to redo my code several times before I finally got it right.

Links Discussed:
Week #1 course text (Lesson #1a)

Original live airdate: Friday September 23, 2005 at 3:30pm PST / 6:30 pm EST
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9/28/2005

Show #52: PHP Course Orientation

Filed under: Radio, Courses, PHP101 — Jowl @ 11:27 am

We started our setup for the PHP course we are going to do next week, we introduced a new member to the show named Spawn. The setup involved Spawn and I opening up Windows Explorer and going to our shared documents folder then making a new folder named courses. Then we made a subfolder inside of courses called PHP and then we made a subfolder inside of the PHP folder called Jowl. Then we put 32 subfolders inside of Jowl and labeled them from 1-32, we labeled all the way to 32 because this course will take at least 32 weeks.

Links Discussed:
Cyberwurx Hosting - PHP hosting for as little as $5 a month
Cyberduck - Good FTP clients for the Mac
Smart Ftp - Windows-based drag/drop FTP editor, similar in design and functionality to Windows Explorer
Notetab - good text editor for Windows, the light version is free
PSPad - Windows-based free text editor with lots of code syntax options. WMcookbook recommended!