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Posted: **Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:48 am**

thanks very good

Posted: **Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:56 am**

Ah yeah, sorry about that. I just php.net as a reference, not tutorials. Just search google for what tutorial you want to learn and there will usually be one. e.g. "php beginners tutorial". Anyway, php.net has a simple introduction tutorial. I dont know whether you will learn anything from it though. http://nz.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php Just follow the links down the bottom of the page. " Your first PHP-enabled page> " Is the first link you follow to start it. Hope this help you, if not you can always get someone here to try to teach you.

Posted: **Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:47 pm**

u can download acaphe2triaid first

it do many things instead of u

Posted: **Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:57 pm**

hossamkiwan wrote:u can download acaphe2triaid first
it do many things instead of u

what is this and what does it do? maybe can you post some kind of links to this "whatever it is"

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:05 am**

Yeah, please do post links

Though I'm checking out the tutorial and manual now, and deleting about 10 or more emails about topic reply on smokyhosts

EDIT: I used the tutorial, and I got this:

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<html>
	<head>
		<title>PHP Test</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<?php echo '

Hello World</p>'; ?>
	</body>
</html>

But the tutorial also said to make a call to

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<?php phpinfo(); ?>

and I don't know exactly how to 'make a call' to it

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:08 am**

Glad to see your learning. I hope you know what you have learnt, and have played around with php. Making a call to phpinfo is just that code. Just make a new page and use that code. Upload it to the server and visit the page. e.g.
http://lts1.smokyhosts.net/~uigame/test.php
This is what will appear on your page when you type that code. It displays the php info of the server so you know what version it is, what you can do etc. Now you probably don't need to use this as it wont make much sense to you, but if you go into more advanced and want to know if the server offers it, then this code should work nicely for your information. I'm just using this address until my real website DNS loads.

So by the tutorial, you know what echo does? If so, you are on your way to mastering php.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:01 am**

Yeah I know what echo does, but it's not very helpful because I already know HTML and that's all echo seems to do, send HTML to be parsed -_- I can't see anything I can do now that I couldn't before learning echo

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:18 am**

Well, php is a bit more advanced then echo. If my site is working, http://www.uigame.info you will see that it is made out of php/mysql and you may take note that it is a game. Most of the content you see is though the use of a template system which gathers up a whole lot of files and converts them into one html page.
What you need to do next, from echo is get a tutorial tha you need to use. Now what do you want to do with php? I can help you find a tutorial that will teach you what you want to know.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:09 am**

Well, I want to make a game in the future, but to begin with I just want to make a more usable website, like when you point at a category along the top, a list pops up on the screan under it with everything that's under that category

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:20 pm**

I dont think that really is to do with php, that seems more like javascript or css. A menu right, and when you roll your mouse over it, the rest of the menu appears. If not, then please explain a bit better.

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