Well, its the second lesson of our Inet Club. People, how are you enjoying it??

This week, we had a philosophy lesson by Shurn. By the way, congratz him on his graduation ^^. Personally I quite like this phrase during his powerpoint: 20-80 rule. We don't reap what we sow. We reap more than what we sow. =D

BACK to main point, so guys? What did you learn from today's lesson?

I didn't have much time to run about to look at many others php programming...but lets summarise the basic:

To tell the browser you are using PHP language, we use this:

<?php --------------- ?>

And we write whatever php stuff we want to define in between the above codes. Righto?

The keyword "echo" prints the stuff you type that follows after it.

Also, remember to terminate each different instructions you want the computer to do by using semi-colon ";" Otherwise, well who knows what will happen?

Next, variables. Variables are used to store values, which then you can use them for manipulation of data and many more. To indicate a variable, you have to use include a dollar-sign in front of a variable name. eg: $varname

Variables are definitely useful and a must to know about. Familiarise with its syntax.

Also, theres lot more stuff you can learn about String functions that are available in PHP. Well, its fun to look through each and test it out when you have time... :D

Operators that can be used to execute on values. Pretty basic, this is a must to look through and learn them. ^^ Teach me operators!

Chapters: "Else-if" and "Switch" are all logic codes, so I shan't be taking time to copy paste the whole thing here. Do learn how to write them.

I shall stop here on PHP for this post. There are some members here who has yet to complete those above I had listed out, while some of them proceeded further to "forms" already.

So before our next club meeting, do try to gather as much as you guys can do. Programming is a subject which requires lots of practicing. Reading doesn't help you to absorb, so you need to TYPE it out, UNDERSTAND and DIGEST.

Yesh, I do emphasize on that. ^.

We have 4 more weeks, before Shurn expects us to write out a blogger engine within 15mins. HA!

So lets work hard before the 6th week!!



Yeah, its hard to decorate a blog which talks about programming.

Yo people, this is the first post of our Internet Club blog. Contributors will try to be active in here. ^-^! And well, visitors, too I hope. A short tag with "hello" won't hurts right?

Yup, I guess it took me a week before posting up what happen on our first lesson right?

By the way, this is Lina, contributing the first post here, as I still haven't add others in here =X!

First week:

Shurn, our tutor, gave us an introduction on what PHP is all about, and of course other stuff about whats going on behind internet and computer. Next the members were given an hour of time to "hunt" through W3Schools Website and learn whatever they can grasp within the hour.

I will list the some of the members had went through during the hour:

Paragraphings, headings, line breaks: Refresh my memory?

Text-formatting: Refresh my memory too?

Hyperlinks: Just click me

And some had went through images =) : Howww??

Tables too: Eh?? The table, the tr, the td???

Oh, and quite a few of the members questioned about changing font colours and size, I couldn't gave an exact answer, however, perhaps in future if we are learning Cascading Style Sheets [CSS], as the current tags in HTML is deprecated, and not recommended to use. ^^

And frames! Well thats a bit little too advanced? But people!! Don't worry, and we shall get to that soon in near future ^^.

Oh yes, we went for the seminar thingie didn't we? 2 of our committee gotten the prizes from the lucky draw. OH...luck! xD

But besides that...here are the links to some of the stuff that was mentioned during the briefing. ^^:

Content Management Software:
Drupal
Joomla!

Software for mobile devices:
Android
Druid

And lastly! :
Singapore PHP User Group Website

-checking my memory- Well, seems like nothing else to blog up here...so, till next meeting then ^^