Hello,
I have my web site up and running <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.editfast.com">http://www.editfast.com</a><!-- m --> designed using DW 4 but I am upgrading to DW MX soon because I would like to add on a "User Registration Area" using PHP/MySql which I understand are better supported in DW MX.
This "User Reg" area will contain a series of forms. Depending on the information entered into the previous form the user will be taken to the next appropriate form to continue till they have finished the process. The information they have entered in the forms will be used to automatically create their own web page on my site. When they have finished entering all their info they will be taken to their Automatically created web page and allowed to change or update the information.
I think this is a big project and I have no experience with PHP except for some automatically installed scripts on my site and I once installed PHP on a server but never really got into the configuration much. If anyone knows:
1) Where do I begin?
2) Good sources of info for the beginner on how to easily do this project.
3) Links to help sites or any info you might think I will need.
Thanks for your help!
Robert Kidd
<!-- e --><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><!-- e --> Bob,
well that is quite a project. I would start small since you don't know php that well. do some easy stuff so you can get the hang of it. make a guestbook, stuff like that.
I have a bunch of helpful stuff on my site about where to begin in php and some scripts to help you get there.
if you have problems we can sure help you through them.Hi Scoutt,
After several hours today and this evening perusing the PHP sites and forums I can honestly say ... HELP! I feel more lost now than I did when I started. At least then I could pretend I knew what I was talking about ;0)
I have accumulated a vast number of site URL's to go through and hopefully in a few days I will know where to start. I am beginning to think I may have to hire someone to do this for me but I will give it a shot.
I was really hoping to find some ready made scripts for this kind of thing. These kinds of sites that have members and dynamically create a web page for each member according to the user input are not that rare so I figured there would be a lot of free scripts available but I don't know what to look for or where to begin.
What do you call these kind of scripts for "members" and "registration" and "user authentication" and "user dynamically created web pages"? I tried searching on devshed.com but soon became overwhelmed by my lack of understanding. I will begin again tomorrow with my other brain... this one is shot!
Bobready made script? well yeah there are a bunch.
Virtual Communities (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Virtual_Communities/">http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_a ... mmunities/</a><!-- m -->)
User Authentication (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/User_Authentication/">http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_a ... ntication/</a><!-- m -->)
if you want to make a members part and registration, you could do that as it is easy.
those are some that you could go throughHey Scoutt,
I got this little search script from your site just to see if I could do any thing with it but I was unable to get it to work. Probably because I don't know what I am doing. I created a new .htm page inserted this code in the after the </body> tag and uploaded this to my server and then accessed it with my browser and got a blank white page at:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.editfast.com/testpage/search/sitesear.htm">http://www.editfast.com/testpage/search/sitesear.htm</a><!-- m -->
What am I doing wrong? (said the php beginner)
<!---Head--->
none
<!---Body--->
<?php
$search = "your text here";
$search_words = explode(' ', $search);
$result = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM table WHERE $category LIKE '%$search_words[0]%' AND $category LIKE '%$search_words[1]%' AND $category LIKE '%$search_words[2]%'");
?>that is because that needs to go into a file named with the php extension and not html. file.php
I have my web site up and running <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.editfast.com">http://www.editfast.com</a><!-- m --> designed using DW 4 but I am upgrading to DW MX soon because I would like to add on a "User Registration Area" using PHP/MySql which I understand are better supported in DW MX.
This "User Reg" area will contain a series of forms. Depending on the information entered into the previous form the user will be taken to the next appropriate form to continue till they have finished the process. The information they have entered in the forms will be used to automatically create their own web page on my site. When they have finished entering all their info they will be taken to their Automatically created web page and allowed to change or update the information.
I think this is a big project and I have no experience with PHP except for some automatically installed scripts on my site and I once installed PHP on a server but never really got into the configuration much. If anyone knows:
1) Where do I begin?
2) Good sources of info for the beginner on how to easily do this project.
3) Links to help sites or any info you might think I will need.
Thanks for your help!
Robert Kidd
<!-- e --><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><!-- e --> Bob,
well that is quite a project. I would start small since you don't know php that well. do some easy stuff so you can get the hang of it. make a guestbook, stuff like that.
I have a bunch of helpful stuff on my site about where to begin in php and some scripts to help you get there.
if you have problems we can sure help you through them.Hi Scoutt,
After several hours today and this evening perusing the PHP sites and forums I can honestly say ... HELP! I feel more lost now than I did when I started. At least then I could pretend I knew what I was talking about ;0)
I have accumulated a vast number of site URL's to go through and hopefully in a few days I will know where to start. I am beginning to think I may have to hire someone to do this for me but I will give it a shot.
I was really hoping to find some ready made scripts for this kind of thing. These kinds of sites that have members and dynamically create a web page for each member according to the user input are not that rare so I figured there would be a lot of free scripts available but I don't know what to look for or where to begin.
What do you call these kind of scripts for "members" and "registration" and "user authentication" and "user dynamically created web pages"? I tried searching on devshed.com but soon became overwhelmed by my lack of understanding. I will begin again tomorrow with my other brain... this one is shot!
Bobready made script? well yeah there are a bunch.
Virtual Communities (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Virtual_Communities/">http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_a ... mmunities/</a><!-- m -->)
User Authentication (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/User_Authentication/">http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_a ... ntication/</a><!-- m -->)
if you want to make a members part and registration, you could do that as it is easy.
those are some that you could go throughHey Scoutt,
I got this little search script from your site just to see if I could do any thing with it but I was unable to get it to work. Probably because I don't know what I am doing. I created a new .htm page inserted this code in the after the </body> tag and uploaded this to my server and then accessed it with my browser and got a blank white page at:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.editfast.com/testpage/search/sitesear.htm">http://www.editfast.com/testpage/search/sitesear.htm</a><!-- m -->
What am I doing wrong? (said the php beginner)
<!---Head--->
none
<!---Body--->
<?php
$search = "your text here";
$search_words = explode(' ', $search);
$result = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM table WHERE $category LIKE '%$search_words[0]%' AND $category LIKE '%$search_words[1]%' AND $category LIKE '%$search_words[2]%'");
?>that is because that needs to go into a file named with the php extension and not html. file.php