I need to broaden my horizons.
Posted by Andy Crofford
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
I remember chatting on a instant message program called PowWow back in 1995. This person I was chatting with suggested I should try designing a web page. Knowing nothing about this I decided to investigate it and ever since then I have been playing around with HTML and making web pages first with Notepad then with a WYSIWYG application called HotDog. Things were so much simpler back in the early - mid 90’s on the Internet, but I digress.
One thing I have always wanted to do is learn how to code PHP. There have been many times I have started to learn it just to get bored and stop. I believe one of the reasons for this is because I could never really come up with a good beginner application that would allow me to apply what I was learning as I went.
Well, I have come up with that app and have decided to try learn PHP. It is an application that I know existed at one time but I can no longer find. For someone who knows how to code in PHP this application would probably take them a whole hour or so. It is pretty simple but will be very useful (huge time saver) to affiliate marketers. Now lets hope I can apply what I am learning and make this happen.
If you see me post an ad looking for a PHP coder you know I most likely failed.
dcr Says:
August 9th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I think I started HTML with a WYSIWYG application called Arachnid. It was better than some of the commercial counterparts of its time. But, even with that, I didn’t do much with web pages until 1997 when GoLive CyberStudio was released. It was later purchased by Adobe and renamed Adobe GoLive.
Adobe discontinued it, so I use Dreamweaver now. I always liked CyberStudio though. I downloaded the demo and was so impressed by it I went ahead and purchased it within hours.
Good luck with your PHP project. My first dip into PHP was several years ago. I had a Perl script that would add a page counter to your website. I had someone ask me if it could be done in PHP. So, that’s when I gave PHP a look, and, if I remember right, I had it converted to PHP that same day. But, I never really touched PHP again until last year, around the same time I really started blogging!
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narendra.s.v Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 8:44 am
hehehe seems to be you are like my blue print at work
coz i too started to learn php but many time it got messed up, really am not much interesed as am happy with my web design works, but if i learn php then i can get on coding too 
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Link Building Bible Says:
August 18th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Holy crap…. PowWow and Hotdog….. that’s definitely taking me back…. designing my site in Hot Dog to post on my old skool Geocities account….
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Andy Crofford Reply:
August 19th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I think I had a Xoom account or something like that. Back in those days web hosting was very expensive.
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