Programming for Designers – Page 8 – Learning PHP & MySQL at Platt College

Code Challenge #3

Now it’s your turn: create a Contact form that works. The form should have the following criteria: Should include inputs for a name, email address, reason/subject/topic and a message. Test it in our test server, and display all the post data (from the form) in a creative way with CSS on the browser page once […]

RegExr

Ever hear of Regular Expressions? They are a way to do pattern matching. A regular expression (regex or regexp for short) is a special text string for describing a search pattern. You can think of regular expressions as wildcards on steroids. You are probably familiar with wildcard notations such as *.txt to find all text […]

Code Challenge #2

We’ve learned about $_GET[ ] and $_POST[ ]! Now it’s your turn to apply what you have learned! Create a Feedback page using your understanding of HTTP and PHP. Sanitize and validate your data. Create a conditional statement that shows the form when it has not been properly submitted, and hides it when it is […]

Code Challenge #1

Hello World It’s a tradition when learning a new language the first thing you do is create a thing that says: “Hello World” Now it’s your turn! Create your own Hello World page using PHP and CSS. Get creative and have fun with it! Save file as firstname_lastinit_hello_world.php Confirm the page works in a browser. […]

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