The Little Geeni

Many php scripts available for download require that a mysql database be created so that data can be stored for use with the script itself. This may seem like a daunting task for a beginner. But don’t worry, the only difficult part about it is not knowing what to do and that’s what we’re here to teach you.

It’s assumed that you already have a web host and access to hosting administration like cPanel, Plesk, etc. We’ll be using cPanel for the purposes of this lesson as it’s commonly installed on Linux servers. However, most major hosting control panels have the same basic principles which can be applied here.

Log In And Create The Database
The first step is to log into cPanel as the user for the domain that your script will be hosted with. This is accomplished by going to http://domain.com/cpanel and replacing domain.com with your domain name. You then enter your hosting username and password given to you by your hosting company.

Once you are logged in scroll down the page to Databases and click the MYSQL Database Wizard icon. This is where we create the actual database. Enter your database name in the “New Database:” field and click Next Step.

If you plan on having more than one database the name should be descriptive to help keep everything organized. For example, for a database used for ecommerce you might name it ecomm. CPanel will add a prefix of your main hosting username and password so your final database name may end up looking like this: username_ecomm.

Add A MYSQL User
Next, we need to add a user that can access and modify the database. Enter the username you wish to use for the database and create or generate a password with the Generate Password function. Be sure your password is a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols to make it as secure as possible. Your username will appear similar to the database name as the hosting username prefix will be added to it as well. For example, username_dbuser. Once these values are entered click Next Step to continue.

Give The User Privileges
Now we give the user privileges so that they may actually work with the database. Usually, you will select the All Privileges box and this is satisfactory for most script installations. If you don’t want the user to be able to modify the database but would still like them to be able to access the records you would select the Select box and so on. Click the Next Step button to finish.

Congratulations!
You’ve just created a database and a user that you can now use with your Php scripts. Many of these scripts have a config file that contains settings with default values for database name and users. You simply open this file with your favorite text editor, like notepad, and change the default values to what you just created. This enables them to install the tables needed to run the script itself.

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Learn Simple PHP Script Programming in Seventeen Hours and Create That Dream Web Site Saving Thousand in Programming Cost

PHP is what I like to call all inclusive web site scripting language. There is a reason that over 50% of all web platforms support PHP natively by default now days. It is simple the best. You can create simple PHP script, or very advanced PHP script for solicited web sites. The choice is yours. The fact or the matter is, that it does not matter what your level of experience with PHP you are going to find PHP very useful, very quickly, on any web site you may own or administrate.

It does not matter weather your looking to spice up your web site as a hobby or if you are looking to save some money on PHP programming for you ecommerce sites. Learning PHP 5 has never been easier to do. There are thousands of PHP scripts out there, available for free just waiting for you to download them, and add them to your web site. The problem is that knowing basic PHP skills is a prerequisite to installing most PHP scripts out there on the Internet today.

What if I told you by tomorrow at this time you could have learn PHP well enough that you could create a simple PHP blog, or perhaps a simple PHP forum.  Well lit is true PHP is simple enough that you could easily have the basic programming skill to complete that and even more. You could be building you first simple PHP script in the next hour and understand what you are doing to boot. You see there are so many ways to learn PHP published today that you can find many source for PHP instruction online with a few searches. From a very simple PHP example to the most advances PHP programming complete with database access you a few clicks always from all the PHP information you will ever need. 

The problem is knowing where to look and how to evaluate the quality of the information you are looking at. I remember when I fist started PHP programming 10 years ago there was not much information. A few basic script examples and then I had to figure it out from there. Thankfully I had many years of programming experience under my belt to help straighten out the PHP learning curve.

Learning PHP fast means knowing how to easily personalize you web pages, make easy .htaccess code for yourself, code games, and create quizzes and other lead building tools with ease. You can even create your own auto responder quickly and easily. Even learn to mix JavaScript with PHP for a powerful combination and unleashing the power of your web site.

Now days it is much easer to learn PHP programming. I recommend something with lots of PHP source code examples in it. Studying PHP Source code is the fast way to learn to become a PRO at PHP programming.

How would you like to have a real PHP pro teach you the basic of PHP programming one on one? Would that not make that learning PHP curve a bit easier to take?  Learning how to learn PHP is almost as important as learning it itself.

Learn Simple PHP Script language in 17 hours.

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WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versatility and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.

This book walks through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom theme for the WordPress open-source blog engine. The author provides design tips and suggestions and covers setting up the WordPress sandbox, and reviews the best practices from setting up the theme’s template structure, through coding markup, testing, and debugging, to taking it live. The last three chapters cover additional tips, tricks, and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to WordPress theme designs using 3rd-party plugins as well as creating API hooks to add custom plugins.

Whether users are working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give them the know-how to effectively understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system enabling them to have full control over their site’s design and branding. Users only need to be comfortable with the basics of web development and this book will take care of the rest.

What you will learn from this book

Set up a basic workflow and development environment for WordPress theme design
Create detailed designs and code them up
Enhance your sites by choosing the right color schemes and graphics
Debug and validate your theme using W3C’s XHTML and CSS validation tools
Customize and tweak your theme’s layout
Set up dynamic drop-down menus, AJAX/dynamic and interactive forms
Download and install useful plug-ins and widgetize your theme
Improve post and page content using jQuery and ThickBox
Add interactivity to your themes using Flash
Includes a reference guide to WordPress 2.0′s template hierarchy, markup, styles and template tags, as well as include and loop functions

Chapter 1 introduces you to the WordPress blog system and lets you know what you need to be aware of regarding the WordPress theme project you’re ready to embark on. The chapter also covers the development tools that are recommended and web skills that you’ll need to begin developing a WordPress theme.

Chapter 2 looks at the essential elements you need to consider when planning your WordPress theme design. It discusses the best tools and processes for making your theme design a reality. The author explains her own ‘Rapid Design Comping’ technique and gives some tips and tricks for developing color schemes and graphic styles for your WordPress theme. By the end of the chapter, you’ll have a working XHTML and CSS based ‘comp’ or mockup of your theme design, ready to be coded up and assembled into a fully functional WordPress theme.

Chapter 3 uses the final XHTML and CSS mockup from Chapter 2 and shows you how to add WordPress PHP template tag code to it and break it down into the template pages a theme requires. Along the way, this chapter covers the essentials of what makes a WordPress theme work. At the end of the chapter, you’ll have a basic, working WordPress theme.

Chapter 4 discusses the basic techniques of debugging and validation that you should employ throughout your theme’s development. It covers the W3C’s XHTML and CSS validation services and how to use the FireFox browser and some of its extensions as a development tool, not just another browser. This chapter also covers troubleshooting some of the most common reasons ‘good code goes bad’, especially in IE, and best practices for fixing those problems, giving you a great-looking theme across all browsers and platforms.

Chapter 5 discuss how to properly set up your WordPress theme’s CSS style sheet so that it loads into WordPress installations correctly. It also discuss compressing your theme files into the ZIP file format and running some test installations of your theme package in WordPress’s administration panel so you can share your WordPress theme with the world.

Chapter 6 covers key information under easy-to-look-up headers that will help you with your WordPress theme development, from the two CSS class styles that WordPress itself outputs, to WordPress’s PHP template tag code, to a breakdown of “The Loop” along with WordPress functions and features you can take advantage of in your theme development. Information in this chapter is listed along with key links to bookmark to make your theme development as easy as possible.

Chapter 7 dives into taking your working, debugged, validated, and properly packaged WordPress theme from the earlier chapters, and enhancing it with dynamic menus using the SuckerFish CSS-based method and Adobe Flash media.

Chapter 8 continues showing you how to enhance your WordPress theme by looking at the most popular methods for leveraging AJAX techniques in WordPress using plugins and widgets. It also gives you a complete background on AJAX and when it’s best to use those techniques or skip them. The chapter also reviews some cool JavaScript toolkits, libraries, and scripts you can use to simply make your WordPress theme appear ‘Ajaxy’.

Chapter 9 reviews the main tips from the previous chapters and covers some key tips for easily implementing today’s coolest CSS tricks into your theme as well as a few final SEO tips that you’ll probably run into once you really start putting content into your WordPress site.

For more details on the book please visit http://www.packtpub.com/wordpress-theme-design/book.

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Months ago I found a tutorial on how to create a tsunami with flash (link below). So I decided to make a easily customizable script with jquery and this is what I got. www.actionscript.org

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This tutorial will show you how to create a simple accordion with jquery. For more tips and tutorials, visit www.detacheddesigns.com/blog

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Is it possible to create a one page website?

One that can provide relevant information on your chosen topic and yet still be lightweight and easy to write AND feature well in the search engines?

Well the answer is undoubtedly yes! And here’s where I will tell you how.

We’ll go through the entire site step by step.

1. Get jquery at www.jquery.com!

What is jquery?

Jquery is a super-lightweight multi-functional javascript library which allows you complete control over every aspect of your web pages (CSS and HTML).

It’s a simple include that you provide in your web page…

eg. “<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jquery.js”></script>”

Check out the jquery.com website to get more details, but for the time begin, just understand that we need this to dynamically “call in” content to our one page site.

2. Get a template for your site!

Try http://www.freecsstemplates.org/ for some great free web templates.

Pick a template you like and create the file index.html.

This will be your “one page” site and all content will be “pulled” into this page.

3. Create your content area

You must now create the DIV tag where your content will be placed.

A line of code something like…

“<div id=”content”></div>”

is required in the middle of your page.

This is where jquery will place your content.

4. Create small files to hold your content.

You’ll need to create files that will hold your content in basic HTML format.

For example, aboutus.html may contain…

About Us

WebCom Systems has been in the internet business

for over 10 years now and has vast experience in developing

every type of site from basic advertising sites to large ecommerce software applications for a variety of businesses.

5. Create a menu to call in the content

Now this is where the jquery magic begins! We now need a simple menu to drive the website.

First we need a javascript function to call from our menu, here it is…

“<script>function Call_content(url){$(“#content”).fadeOut(‘fast’).load(url).fadeIn(‘slow’);}</script>”

So, your menu that call this javascript function should look a bit like this…

About Us

So there we have it! You can now add as many content files as you like and add them to your menu!

Easy eh?

Now to complete the whole setup, remember to

-> add your site to Google webmaster tools
-> add relevant keywords and description to your page

-> add in Google Analytics for site stats
-> maybe add in a few adsense adverts!

And there you have it, a one page website!

Please feel free to visit my company website at http://www.webcomsystems.biz to see a working example of this.

 

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