Malcolm,
It's called a learning curve, and is necessary to know the mechanics of the language. If you try to short-circuit it, you'll forever be wondering "How'd that happen?"
Just prepare some simple scripts and try them out, or use something like ColdFusion and be resigned to forever working in CF.
Trust me on this - I tried to short-circuit dBase II by using Fox & Geller's templating engine, except that because it had to be so general to handle every scenario, it wrote v. inefficient code. (It also wrote buggy code, and by the time you worked out their approach to programming you could have written the thing yourself.) And I've used a number of frameworks since; all have their pitfalls, usually because they have to be so general.
So, work with the tutorials on the PHP site and use them as stepping stone to help you through that swamp labelled "Slough of Stuff I Don't Know" to the "Uplands of Competency".
Have fun - Miles Thompson
At 11:13 AM 12/15/2004, Malcolm Mill wrote:
Hi, Newbie learning php here. Does anyone (have|know where I can get) a set of html and php files to automate script and form writing?
What I want is an html file with forms, drop down boxes, check boxes etc, that will allow me to quickly|automatically construct php and html code to run on my server.
For instance, a template generator: to create a new file with the script directive for scripts I want to run from the shell and output plain text. to create a new file with html tags for server-scripts which will output html formatting to create scraps of code for function declarations, or control flow structures, using text boxes on an html form to name variables and set values, outputting the fully constructed scraps into another text area from which I can cut and paste into a main script.
I don't want anything too complicated such as a fully blown graphical IDE that will take me a long time to learn.
Cheers, Malcolm.
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