Comments on: Introduction

By: tokz

tokz — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:41:02 +0000

good work..thank you for the information..

By: Rob Escobar

Rob Escobar — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:45:15 +0000

I have hads some issues attempting PHP

However I hope to get better.

Duke

By: Martin Geisler

Martin Geisler — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:10:51 +0000

Hi Sourabh,

I don’t use Windows and for GNU/Linux I always install PHP using Debian packages… So I cannot help you with the installation — please seek help somewhere else. The links above should give you plenty of information.

By: Sourabh

Sourabh — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:28:29 +0000

Hello Martin, I have started reading your blog for PHP.I liked the introduction.I just have some confusion regarding the installation of apacher and php.

It seems to be that it is free.

I am using windows XP as my OS, can i start learning php on it, directly downlaoding WAMP on my computer?

Please clarify.

Regards, Sourabh.

By: Martin Geisler

Martin Geisler — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:11:06 +0000

Thanks again for your encouraging comments, I appreciate it!

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:58:27 +0000

Little wasn’t meant in a belittling term btw :) Just that it’s not massive/cluttered and poorly managed, like a fair few other sites I’ve seen about. It’s great that you also take the time to promptly reply to people :)

edit-description.php’s code is absolutely great for a begginer. I can understand the lack of time - it’s difficult to keep a life whilst working overtime to meet deadlines, writing your own personal programs/running a site - and most importantly actually having a life. Looks like you’re doing an awesome job - kudos :)

By: Martin Geisler

Martin Geisler — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:06:32 +0000

Thanks for the comments, I'm very glad you like my little site.

You're right about the time --- that's the limiting factor. I've sort of shifted my focus over to different projects instead of writing guides for my site. Those projects are PEL and PHP Shell which feature real-life code. I guess the code there is somewhat complicated, but maybe you would like to look at the edit-description.php file from PEL anyway since it is heavely commented. It uses functions, objects, and lots of builtin PHP functions.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:49:08 +0000

Hey Martin,

Just thought I'd drop you a line to say this is a cool and informative little blog you've got set up here. The last few days I've installed and configured PHP, MySQL and Apache on Windows XP and created a webpage for a project I'm working on. Thanks to this easy to follow introduction, I'm able to hit the ground running with PHP without much of a delay between finishing the html/css for the site and jumping straight into the mysql/PHP work - other sites out there arent quite so clean and focused - taking it a while to read through different peoples articles which dont quite tie in with each other - so good work.

I'd love to see a few more in depth articles on more complex stuff if you have the time. Maybe even some sample code for people to play with - giving the site an extra dimension and making it more interactive.

I look forward to reading more of your articles - if you have have the time!

Ben

By: Martin Geisler

Martin Geisler — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:54:27 +0000

Thanks for the notice! I’ve updated the page a bit, I hope it’s better now.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:13:27 +0000

In the tutorial/introduction page you have an error in your grammar. Just thought I’d let you know since it’s the only one I’ve found so far. Very good! You say:
‘Because PHP is meant to be used with webpages it has a lot of functions to deal with text. Generally you can say that PHP is specially designed to deal with webpages, and doing so quickly and efficiently. Because of that most of the built-in functions are simple and straightforward to use.’
Where you say ‘doing so’ don’t you mean ‘do so’?
Heh-
–I’m going to learn a lot here. I am already impressed. You watch. I’ll show you my program when it’s done! Thanks for doing this!!
Terry