Programming for Designers – Page 7 – Learning PHP & MySQL at Platt College

How to Export and Import Data

A quick video on how to port your data. Useful for being able to work on your projects at home.

PHP’s Graphics Draw Library

PHP can do a lot. Did you know that besides outputting HTML and interfacing with our databases, if you have the Graphics Draw library installed (most servers do), you can write code to create images on the fly? Take this one step further and PHP can take the data from your database and create charts […]

Code Challenge #5

Go to your database’s SQL tab and write the queries that will get you the appropriate data. Get this list of questions: Query Challenge Document Install this database to run your queries against in the SQL window. blog database Underneath the questions in the document, write the query string and test it. See if it […]

Code Challenge #4

Create three pages using your understanding of SESSIONS, COOKIES and PHP. On the first page, create a session and a cookie. The second page must carry the session data from the first page. If you close the browser, the cookie will pick up and re-set the session data and show the value of the session. […]