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.

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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.