How hard would this be?

On Sun, 23 May 2004 07:39:16 GMT, Heidi <blackcat2 RemoveThis @zwallet.com> wrote:

 > I am looking for something a little challenging but not too hard for
 > writing my first PHP script. I also want something useful to me.
 >
 > I thought of this but how hard would it really be?
 >
 > example:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://s92537922.onlinehome.us/fastbanner/</font" target="_blank">http://s92537922.onlinehome.us/fastbanner/</font</a>>

Image editing can be fun! Except it's not exactly the easiest thing to do
in PHP. The best first script are those that just manipulate text.
Rewriting your webpages using PHP to optimize reusability of code (header
- content - footer) is a great place to start. From there, all sorts of
web-optimization becomes available, especially if you write the page first
to the output buffer (look up the ob_start() function) and then to the
page.

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Heidi wrote:

 > I am looking for something a little challenging but not too hard for
 > writing my first PHP script. I also want something useful to me.
 >
 > I thought of this but how hard would it really be?
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://s92537922.onlinehome.us/fastbanner/</font" target="_blank">http://s92537922.onlinehome.us/fastbanner/</font</a>>

Have you done similar stuff in, say, Perl's Image::Magick or Image::GD
before? If so, transferring the skills to PHP shouldn't be too hard.

If not, then I'd try something simpler if I were you. A forum should be
challenging enough.

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 > I am looking for something a little challenging but not too hard for
 > writing my first PHP script. I also want something useful to me.

I found this very good when I first learned:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.blazonry.com/scripting/linksdb/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.blazonry.com/scripting/linksdb/index.php</a>

PS. I didn't know you hadn't written any before!
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Charging up on a white horse Charles Sweeney said:
: I found this very good when I first learned:
:
: http://www.blazonry.com/scripting/linksdb/index.php
:
: PS. I didn't know you hadn't written any before!


*blush* yeah most I have had 'time' to do so far
is tinker with other php scripts to edit them to do more what
I wanted them to and yes I could edit them :p

I have not written anything of my own though from a blank
page yet. I want to though.

Thanks for the link.

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"Heidi" <blackcat2 RemoveThis @zwallet.com> wrote in
 > I am looking for something a little challenging but not too hard for
 > writing my first PHP script. I also want something useful to me.
 >
 > I thought of this but how hard would it really be?
 >
 > example:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://s92537922.onlinehome.us/fastbanner/</font" target="_blank">http://s92537922.onlinehome.us/fastbanner/</font</a>>
 >

that's a big application but its consise, once its finished there's not much more
you could add.

You have to handle picture files, decoding bitmaps, gifs, a database of files,
graphics handling, file creation, text formatting, downloads...

Its a big program, you'd want some experience with large projects in other languages,
but you could make it a long term project and keep working on others meanwhile.

Start with assimple prototype as you can, a plain text bitmap banner creator. Then
design what modules you can add. Then sell it to bannerx!

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