My assets list and proof of copyright emails are now uploaded in PDF format.
Assets list
Copyright evidence
Monday 3 March 2008
Saturday 1 March 2008
Evaluation
To learn a new skill is difficult in it's self, but to learn a new skills on your own is even more difficult. However although I had very little experience of PHP to begin with, I feel it did give me a very slight advantage going into this assignment.
Having a basic idea of the way in which PHP works allowed me to be able to make sense of tutorials and example code more easily which allowed me to pick things up easier and more quickly. One thing I did learn about my self whilst learning PHP is that I learn much better by doing rather than reading a book.
I think this is because I found it difficult to be at a computer screen and follow a tutorial from a book whilst trying to repeat the same process on screen. I also found it much easier to find more exact code examples of what I was trying to learn as apposed to in a book which was obviously a lot more limited than the internet
This became very important during the creation of my website as I found did not work as expected and so I had to find others rather quickly.
I think that this was due to my research skills which is something I need to improve on. For example, in the initial research stage I found a tutorial which allowed a user to login to my database using a hard coded login name and password. This I thought would be fine until I soon realised that it posed both a large security threat but also a rather large impracticality in the sense that only one member would be able to use the site.
For this reason I looked on the same site for a tutorial which pulled users from a database only to spend hours trying to learn/implement the code to find once again the tutorial was incorrect and didn't actually work and so I had to find yet another.
Another example of this was that my login form tutorial also didn't tell me how users could register their details so they were uploaded to the database.
Both these reasons severely set me back in the development stages of my site and could have being avoided easily with a little more thought and thorough research in the initial stages.
On the whole however I feel that my learning of a new skill went very well. I managed to learn all of the skills I set out to learn and more. Some aspects of PHP I learnt I decided not to use (I.e the use of the date function) as I thought it was unneeded and was a case of using it for using it's sake. On reflection however I think that using it in my guestbook would have being a good idea as it could have been used to show what day and time posts were made.
Were I do to this same assignment again I would try and push my self a lot more and try to learn more advanced skills rather than playing it safe which I feel I may have done a little with this assignment.
I think I would also try and think about the security aspects of PHP more too as currently it is something I haven't taken in to consideration much and is obviously quite important.
Having a basic idea of the way in which PHP works allowed me to be able to make sense of tutorials and example code more easily which allowed me to pick things up easier and more quickly. One thing I did learn about my self whilst learning PHP is that I learn much better by doing rather than reading a book.
I think this is because I found it difficult to be at a computer screen and follow a tutorial from a book whilst trying to repeat the same process on screen. I also found it much easier to find more exact code examples of what I was trying to learn as apposed to in a book which was obviously a lot more limited than the internet
This became very important during the creation of my website as I found did not work as expected and so I had to find others rather quickly.
I think that this was due to my research skills which is something I need to improve on. For example, in the initial research stage I found a tutorial which allowed a user to login to my database using a hard coded login name and password. This I thought would be fine until I soon realised that it posed both a large security threat but also a rather large impracticality in the sense that only one member would be able to use the site.
For this reason I looked on the same site for a tutorial which pulled users from a database only to spend hours trying to learn/implement the code to find once again the tutorial was incorrect and didn't actually work and so I had to find yet another.
Another example of this was that my login form tutorial also didn't tell me how users could register their details so they were uploaded to the database.
Both these reasons severely set me back in the development stages of my site and could have being avoided easily with a little more thought and thorough research in the initial stages.
On the whole however I feel that my learning of a new skill went very well. I managed to learn all of the skills I set out to learn and more. Some aspects of PHP I learnt I decided not to use (I.e the use of the date function) as I thought it was unneeded and was a case of using it for using it's sake. On reflection however I think that using it in my guestbook would have being a good idea as it could have been used to show what day and time posts were made.
Were I do to this same assignment again I would try and push my self a lot more and try to learn more advanced skills rather than playing it safe which I feel I may have done a little with this assignment.
I think I would also try and think about the security aspects of PHP more too as currently it is something I haven't taken in to consideration much and is obviously quite important.
Friday 29 February 2008
Friday 22 February 2008
Monday 18 February 2008
Wednesday 30 January 2008
Web Plan - Delivery Requirements
XHTML
XHTML (eXtensive Hyper Text Markup Language) will be used as the starting point for building the web site and lays out the structure of the site. XHTML will be used for each page of the site.
CSS
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) will be used to add style to the pages. This will be in many forms including laying out the site, adding background colours and setting the font.
CSS is also good for improving search engine ranking’s which would be good in a commercial situation.
PHP
PHP is an open source scripting language that can be embedded into HTML coding. A PHP script is executed on the server and returns the page on the browser as plain HTML. For this reason PHP will be combined with MySQL to create the web site and make the pages dynamic.
MySQL
Owned by a single for-profit firm (MySQL AB) MySQL is an open source database using SQL (the most popular language for adding, accessing and processing databases). Because the software is open source it means that it can be downloaded by anyone and altered or tweaked to meet their needs (in accordance with the licence). For this reason MySQL will be combined with PHP to create the web site and make the pages dynamic.
XHTML (eXtensive Hyper Text Markup Language) will be used as the starting point for building the web site and lays out the structure of the site. XHTML will be used for each page of the site.
CSS
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) will be used to add style to the pages. This will be in many forms including laying out the site, adding background colours and setting the font.
CSS is also good for improving search engine ranking’s which would be good in a commercial situation.
PHP
PHP is an open source scripting language that can be embedded into HTML coding. A PHP script is executed on the server and returns the page on the browser as plain HTML. For this reason PHP will be combined with MySQL to create the web site and make the pages dynamic.
MySQL
Owned by a single for-profit firm (MySQL AB) MySQL is an open source database using SQL (the most popular language for adding, accessing and processing databases). Because the software is open source it means that it can be downloaded by anyone and altered or tweaked to meet their needs (in accordance with the licence). For this reason MySQL will be combined with PHP to create the web site and make the pages dynamic.
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