Practicing

[Craig321]

Hi,

Any ideas what I can do to practice some PHP? I want to learn more
Today I did this today, but it was too easy:

<?

function tpl($d, $o){
  DEFINE($d, $o);
}

$layout[1] = '<table width="100%" border="1"><tr><td><b>items</b></td><td><b>_SERVER code</b></td></tr>';
$layout[2] = '<tr>';
$layout[3] = '<td>';
$layout[4] = '</td>';
$layout[5] = '</tr>';
$layout[6] = '</table>';

$l = $layout;

tpl('l1', $l[1]);
tpl('l2', $l[2]);
tpl('l3', $l[3]);
tpl('l4', $l[4]);
tpl('l5', $l[5]);
tpl('l6', $l[6]);

$uAddr = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$uAgent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$uHost = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$uDocRoot  = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$sName = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$sSoftware = $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'];
$sSig = $_SERVER['SERVER_SIGNATURE'];
$rURI = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

echo l1;

echo l2;
echo l3;
      echo $uAgent;
echo l4;
echo l3;
      echo 'HTTP_USER_AGENT';
echo l4;
echo l5;


echo l2;
echo l3;
  echo $uAddr;
echo l4;
echo l3;
  echo 'REMOTE_ADDR';
echo l4;
echo l5;

echo l2;
echo l3;
  echo $uHost;
echo l4;
echo l3;
  echo 'HTTP_HOST';
echo l4;
echo l5;

echo l2;
echo l3;
  echo $uDocRoot;
echo l4;
echo l3;
  echo 'DOCUMENT_ROOT';
echo l4;
echo l5;

echo l2;
echo l3;
  echo $sName;
echo l4;
echo l3;
  echo 'SERVER_NAME';
echo l4;
echo l5;

echo l2;
echo l3;
  echo $sSoftware;
echo l4;
echo l3;
  echo 'SERVER_SOFTWARE';
echo l4;
echo l5;

echo l2;
echo l3;
  echo $sSig;
echo l4;
echo l3;
  echo 'SERVER_SIGNATURE';
echo l4;
echo l5;

echo l2;
echo l3;
  echo $rURI;
echo l4;
echo l3;
  echo 'REQUEST_URI';
echo l4;
echo l5;

echo l2;
echo l3;
  echo $uDocRoot;
  echo $rURI;
echo l4;
echo l3;
  echo 'DOCUMENT_ROOT & REQUEST_URI';
echo l4;
echo l5;


echo l4;

?>

Unecessarily (sp?) complicated, but it was to practice. I did it all off the top of my heae, no manuals or anything, but as I said it was too easy and I didn't learn anything from it >.<

So, any other ideas of what I can write to practice / learn more ?

Craig.

 

[SamHandwich]

Not to sound patronising, but I'd reccomend at least having a look at the manual at http://uk.php.net. I don't think I've ever seen such a long winded way of going about something. Maybe to practice you should try and cut that code down to, ooh I dunno, I reckon it could be done in 10 lines or less.

 

[robmiller]

Why would you write a function that has the same arguments as and does exactly the same thing as define(), and why would you assign HTML to constants that have absolutely no indication of their contents from their name?

Also, you effectively prevent yourself from printing numbers if you assign constants as numbers:

echo 1; // prints 1
define('1', 'foo');
echo 1; // prints foo

So you end up having to write all your numbers as strings.

Try this, which achieves the same in a much easier and more modifiable way:

<?php

echo '
<table id="server">
	
	<tr>
		<th>Name</th>
		<th>Value</th>
	</tr>
';

foreach($_SERVER as $k => $v)
{
	
	echo "
	<tr>
		<td>$k</td>
		<td>$v</td>
	</tr>";
	
}

echo '
	</table>
';

?>

It's all well and good saying "I didn't learn anything", but you should be looking for ways to make your scripts more concise, easier to read and if possible more efficient.

 

[Craig321]

Not to sound patronising, but I'd reccomend at least having a look at the manual at http://uk.php.net. I don't think I've ever seen such a long winded way of going about something. Maybe to practice you should try and cut that code down to, ooh I dunno, I reckon it could be done in 10 lines or less.

I made it complicated on purpose, as I said to practice using functions, define etc.

I wouldn't normally use that code, that's just silly.

 

[hendrix]

Have a go at setting yourself a project of some sort. Have a bash at Pool/Snooker Tournement or something like that. Having a bigger idea sometimes help collect everything together.

My 2p

 

[Craig321]

hendrix, not sure what you mean?

I thought maybe writing a forum might be a good idea, I'd start by doing the simple parts like new topic, reply to thread etc. And then I'd go onto the extras.

 

[hendrix]

hendrix, not sure what you mean?

I thought maybe writing a forum might be a good idea, I'd start by doing the simple parts like new topic, reply to thread etc. And then I'd go onto the extras.

One of my biggest problems is trying to explain things

Having a project, like for example Forum is what i was trying to get at. Something that you have to combine lots of different things together.

 

[Craig321]

Ah, OK. Just wasn't sure what you meant by "Have a bash at Pool/Snooker Tournement or something like that."

I did start a message board a while ago, I got stuck on replies though, it wouldn't list all the replies to the thread for some reason. I'll probably start it again and see if I can do it this time

Craig.