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thats realy assuring from your personal experience, is there a big difference from Mac and PC (in this context), as I dont haave access to Macs thanks

throughout my web design projects I find it slightly confusing to as how many browsers I should try to test on (is there a fixed list of browsers that need to be supporting) I found an assignment proposal on the web (open universities) where it advices students that their work should renders the same at the following browsers: Chrome 2.x Firefox 3.x IE 7.x / 8.x (nothing mentioned about IE6) - but I normaly try and include IE6 BUT not below Opera 9.x Safari 3.x / 4.x is there any other browsers that i MUST test my work on (for every project) also would I really need to test on real browsers or would screenshot web services be enough, plus how important is it to test on different operating systems thanks a lot

Thanks for explaining the starting point of where to start with a CMS, i think i got the idea. and the css-tricks series seems fantastic I will definitely go through them. Also I just finished watching the two screencasts on the framework, it doesn't seem like anything I have tried before, so I will definitely play around with that. the blog in 20 minutes tutorial seemed really impressive, but of course if I were to start working with that framework, I would start forgetting what I already know. But as you said I might learn few things (at least) about the file structure used I do like the look of this framework, and will definitely experiment with it, but in parallel with the other php practice. Thanks so much, you've helped me clarify a lot of things.

i will look at Codelgniter, just to get a feel to what it is about (and maybe get some form of "good practice" tips). Also (alongside) definitely look at creating a CMS. (i have not done any form of research yet) - is there any tutorial/topic of VERY basic definition in the killer sphere, in what would CMS consist of - on top of my head, I'm thinking wordpress (which i have used) - So when i say, i'm going to create a CMS, is wordpress (content editing site) the only referral point. so basically my aim would be to recreate a wordpress type (but less complex) - are their other websites which may be considered as being CMSs in nature thanks a lot falkencreative

OOP related, I had to create small book review site for University, where I used OOP, which consisted read,write, edit and delete data from Database, where follows on from Stefans structure (plus tips from other tuts), I made use of all the public private and protected variables and functions (unfortunately I don't have live samples). But of course the procedural version of the shopping cart is better, as i am better and slightly quicker at debugging it. i have not created any CMSs - i might start something like that would a frame work teach me anything, or just make the php "writing" easier? as i remember, last year i worked with the 960 grid (css) frame work for few months, and also i used to use my css code library for projects (with small changes to suite the project in hand) and at the end, when i started to write by own css (again without the help of framework or my library), i was not as quick as before (in that i needed the help the dreamweaver hints) - and that is the only reason i have ignored the use of php framework, as php is harder than css, and i do not think that i am that advanced at php so if php frameworks are anything like the 960 grid framework, I don't think that (at this stage) i would benefit from it, as I'm am not creating projects for commercial use (therefore time consumption in personal projects is not a problem if it means i could get more learning out of it) I might have a look at those advanced series you mentioned - but maybe because I'm "lazy" or lack experience, when I follow (step-by-step) tutorials, I don't seem to take much in like i followed the OOP tuts from Stefan a long time a go (not long after publishing them), it took me a long time before i sat down and improved upon what Stefan covered but yes, even though I'm not sure what really would be involved in creating a CMS, I think that is the thing that might help me thanks

Hi, As many people that use the killer videos and tuts, i feel that i got the hang of php. i am able to write fully functioned shopping carts (my imagination is not great so i dont know what other find of php projects to create ) so i feel that i know the basics and i'm at a stage where most tutorials (outside of the killer "production") seem familiar, and in most cases I tend to skip the writers explanation and just examine the code. in fact this kind of tut seem to suit me best, where i can sit down with a pen and paper and take notes on the things that the author did that i would not have done (therefore, change by "bad" habits) is there anything that i could be doing in order to "push" by self, without waiting for the "next" tutorial. something which would involve me doing by own investigation/research (as i said, you have no idea, how great i felt as i went though the tutorial i linked bellow) like i could easily rewrite the oop tutorials Stefan wrote, or rewrite my shopping carts or book review systems, but i seem to be re-writing the same functionality (like at school, where the teacher would make you write a sentence 35 times, which maybe 10/35 times you get the spelling wrong but you are still writing the same thing) it does feel like this "question" may not be the best question in this forum (for that i'm sorry); but I would really appreciate it if you could share some recommendations on what i should be doing to improve on programming (other than following tutorials) thanks so much

they are all more or less things like this Line 392, Column 7: Premature end of data in tag p line 104 </html> all say that there is mismatch on the ending tags - but for the things that i have entered and modified there are no errors - on the html that is generated from wp_bla(); ps - sorry for late reply

hi i am trying to design a wordpress blog using the naked theme from eliot j stock, though due to my styling and personal work style i had to add, remove or edit the divs and so on, anyway, i tried to validate the html and it is giving me around 80 error messages (some warnings), when i check my code, all the error sections are generated from the includes i.e. <?php wp_head(); ?> my question is, should i be trying to modify these includes, or are these errors "normal" in this case the only reason i remembered to validate the document, was when i tried to use some inline jquery and was giving me the error of " $ is not defined" which i thought was because of my html work as - $(document).ready(function(){} used to always work when i use the reference from the google library. thanks a lot

i added a password to root user - but i get the same error ".. (using password:NO) ..." i also tried to add a new user with all privileges, and still i get the exact same error and i am using xampp as a local server

i finally had a play with the code pollux wrote, it giving me the error of Access denied for user 'ODBC'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in D:\xampp\htdocs\000.SERVICES\001.PHP\projects\001.object_orientated\cart.php\cart_lib.php on line 82 line 82 refers to this: $this->_result = mysql_query($sql); and as far as i know the problem is in this: private function __construct() { $dbc = mysql_connect(parent::DB_HOST , parent::DB_USERNAME , parent::DB_PASSWORD ); mysql_select_db( parent::DB_NAME, $dbc ); //... now when i hover over the $server, $user and password; a pop-up (the little hints) come up saying they are equal to null i tried to search the error in google and it says that the configuration details are not set but i did change them: class Config{ const DB_HOST = "localhost"; const DB_USERNAME = "root"; const DB_PASSWORD = ""; const DB_NAME = "agile"; } though i even tryed to enter the config info directly: $dbc = mysql_connect("localhost" , "root" , "" ); but still the same error hope you can help

thanks stefan, i guess my over all questions are answered i will buy the advanced videos soon - now the CD version, does it have anything extra, so if i chose to "download now" - would i be missing anything form the CD thanks to you all - you're great

falkencreative - thanks just my looking at your tutorial, i get the krillz said . i gues i hsve a lot to learn. by the way, is there any tutorials on oo php (that goes beyond the killer oo php tutorials - as they are really good, but as you can see, i'm finding it hard to build upon the examples. once again thanks for the tutorial

I am sorry, but is there any other resource where I can learn about mysqli, as the php documentation at php.net seems to be a bit confusing (in fact i always struggle to get anything useful out of that manual, is that normal?)

i found this article very helpful as it kindof tests all the measurements that we can use for typography - but, the book "principles of beautiful web design" explain very well how to use the em (as i thing you need something like: body{ font-size: 60%; // I THINK IS 60%; } in order for your em's to be more managable - but ye i strongly recomend you read that book from sitepoint.

i have bought these magazines and to honest they are not worth buying, as photoshop tutorials (covering different effects) can be found through google. personally though, i buy the ".net" magazine, it covers css, jquery, php, flash, and tutorials on PHOTOSHOP layouts - is once a month, is easy to read (as i dont like reading lots in return for very little knowledge). there is also the "web designers magazine" (i think) - i bought it once, and i liked it both of them cover tutorials on web layouts in photoshop (but not in every issue)- so every month i flick through those two and buy the one that covers more of what i want (as they do cover flash which im not going to bother learning) where as the two you mention (i flicked though them ) they look too advanced and i think they concentrate more on graphic design rather than web layout designed - and the core really advanced stuff (I think) online websites: css-tricks.com - css, jquery, photoshop smashingmagazine.com (as above) hope you can get something useful out of this

thanks pollux i am going to take a look at the code; i am pretty bad at the terminology and because i could not work on php for such long time, i feel as if i'm starting all over (but i hope everything i have learned before will come to surface soon) so Krillz - your comment sounds interesting and familiar , as i heard about mysqli (and recently seen it in a job advertisement ) but i dont know what that it to be honest I would really benefit if someone could recommend by some books to build up on the excellent video intro on OO php (that is on killerphp site) as i just about to graduate, i have planed to take the three months summer time to just built up on my portfolio and hopefully be able to have really good work to present to the employers thanks guys

on my second year at university i worked on php and managed to create a shopping cart system, at the time i was not using object orientated. Since then i needed to deviate my focus on other programing languages (as part of the curriculum) anyway, i am trying to play around with oo php and i thought i would try and create few function and class around the code i already have (from the shopping card) i have create this class class cart{ function __construct() { $dbc = mysql_connect("localhost","root","") OR die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("agile") OR ('coul not select db : '. mysql_error()); } var $image; var $item; var $desk; var $price; var $qu; public function read(){ if ($_GET['me'] == true) { $cat = $_GET['me']; }else{ $cat = "price"; } $query = "SELECT * FROM kurtula_shop where quantaty > '0' ORDER BY $cat "; $result = mysql_query($query); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_ASSOC)) { $this->image = $row[image]; $this->item = $row[item]; $this->desk = $row[description]; $this->price = $row[price]; $this->qu = $row[quantaty]; } return $this->desk; }} as you can see at the moment i am only trying to return the descriotion that is within the database (there is more then one record/item in the database) now on i am trying to display each record in the view page, and i am using the following code: $cart = new cart(); echo $cart->read(); however this only displays the first record on the DB (even though there are more, and i am using the while loop within the class. i tried to using the following code (but it gives an error) $cart = new cart(); foreach( $cart->read() as $product){ echo $product->read(); } i would really appreciate any help you could give me.

thanks Benjamin Falk the tutorial looks helpful, will find sometime this weekend to try it out, though the other thing that i niglected to mention (and that because i do not feel good about it) is that i will be using .NET to implement this website. now i have started to look at php last year (i think ) - of course, because of uni work i have not been able to allocate time to learn a lot of php but sertanly, i know more php than .net - so that is going to be my biggest challenge of all the idea behind using .net was so that i can learn a new language, then be able to compare the two from a personal point of view - and as stefan said on one of the videos learning another language, helps with the other languages, even though he was not talking about .NET - and on top of it all - i think university is all about experimentation (is not that we learn any programming there) - all the serious learing goes on by reading blogs and forums - so uni is just a way of getting free time to work on personal goals anyways thanks for the tutorial

I have collected the feedback I got from you, there has 12 responses so about 10 have been from you guys, so thanks a lot I has extremely happy that your responses reflected my other research, which basically some have had trouble using the social site, others have not found the help useful. Also there are people that have not read there terms and conditions (I?m one of the ) and others that don?t know and don?t really care how their information is used by their social sites. Today I had to present the finding to my assessors, and they liked the ?audience feedback? though it looks like they expect me to ?really? try and implement a chat application within my website (like facebook), and that is something that I have no idea where to start. Anyways, even though I had designed the survey will few problems (ie. Making wrong questions required), I really like to thank you for helping me with this. Thanks all Aurel

yes i just managed to modify it to allow multiple answeres: i had to use checkboxes rather than radio buttons- never the less, the replys are realy helpful up to now

jlhaslip - yes thats my bad, i found it strick to set it up though thanks for your submition i change question 4 to normal (not required) falkencreative: yes, i cant wait to start it, though i want to do a bit more research, so that when i start the coding, i do not need to google anything - other than "how to code that or the other" because this is the final project, the assessors are being very cool, in letting me to decide what needs to be included (as long as i can back it up with the research) - so it will not include things like external applications (such as the quizes and games in facebook) though i hope to include : emailing, commenting, uploading, inforation storage (hobbies and so on) AND i am thinking it be cool to try and create an intant messaging between users (like facebook) - though that is the only thing that i have never tryed to do - and is not like i'm an advance coder (i find it hard to call my self intermediat) - So i may not "get the time" to do the messaging - there are few other feature that i'm not remembering at the moment but that would be the base line

hi as part for my final year of my university degree, i have chosen to create a new social networking site (simular to facebook) at the moment i am collecting my research, i would realy like to find out how people use Social Netwoking site I hope you could help me with this research by filling out this survey: http://www.tigersurvey.com/survey.php?survey=12792 ? greatly appreciated

thanks for the help a have done this kind of thing before but using the procedural coding - and this was my first time using the class and i got so mixed up - i got so confused and annoyed with this that i did not realize that the 4th item has part of my database record but once again thanks alot

hi the above code only gives me the word "array" on the page, therefore no error message though, as it is an array, i tried to then print it using "print_r" just to see what is doing, and it does show that it is holding the records Array ( [0] => Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS [1] => HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS [2] => Simply JavaScript [3] => Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP and MySQL [4] => No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP ) apart from the 4th entry which is not part of my items - now this is getting strange (the array is getting strange) thanks