ryanSmithART.com/courses/388/2014

- week 15 -

talk about final project

Here's some examples of "self-promotion" sites:
AlexHeilner | Carrie Fucile | Jason Sloan | Laura Hatcher | Chris Thurman | Tracy Costopoulos

Student work:

tinapye.com | Tom | Joey | Sarah

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start talking about PHP

What is PHP ?

"PHP for the web..." Book

Intro to PHP:

step 1 - connect to a server

step 2 - save webpage with .php extension

step 3 - test php version with this code:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

step 4 - insert php into html format

<?php
print "this text was made with PHP";
?>

step 5 - make another .php page (& save it)

step 6 - try inserting that page into your previous .php page

<div id="footy">
<?php
include ('footer.php');
?>
<!--end footy--></div>

EXAMPLE ( view page source ) | here's the html with php | php pages' code | CSS code

 

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a little more PHP

see registration form:
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~rsmith33/388/register.php

here's the php code

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find contact forms online for free:
http://www.foxyform.com/

talk about forms:

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
<label>Label : text field
<input type="text" name="id : text field" id="id : text field" />
</label>
</form>

Label : text field

<form id="form2" name="form2" method="post" action="">
<label>area
<textarea name="area" id="area" cols="45" rows="5"></textarea>
</label>
</form>

area

button

radio button checkBox

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- WEDNESDAY -

More with PHP forms
* why use a contact form?
or why use ryanSmithstudent[at]aol[dot]com

When outputting PHP code:
\n in PHP is like a line break <br> in HTML

NOTE: this is actually linked to my email : ryanSmithstudent[at]aol[dot]com
Please don't hit submit, because I'll wind up with dozens of unnecessary emails
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~rsmith33/contact/contact.html

Here's the code [ feel free to steal it & edit it ] :

contact.html    |    contactengine.php    |    contactthanks.php

WEBSITES	vs.    BLOGS
aliflailasitar.com christhurman.com newrafael.com aakashnihalani.com . ryanSmithArt.com	aliflailasitarmusic.blogspot.com visualswirl.com newrafael.tumblr.com eyescreamsunday.com dopebody.tumblr.com 202archive.wordpress.com http://mealreviews.blogspot.com/

Places to get your blog started:
http://wordpress.org
https://www.tumblr.com
www.blogger.com (Google)

What's WIX?
- http://www.caseythecreative.com/
- http://www.esteralazowska.com/
- http://karlacott.wix.com/karlacottyoga

#comments {
font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #FFF;
background-color: #000;
padding: 10px;
height: 300px;
width: auto;
overflow:auto;
}

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HOME WORK

Upcoming weeks:

#16 : Rough draft of Final Project Due : Mon. December 8th
Wednesday, December 10 : NO CLASS, "study day"

Exam time : MON, DEC 15, 3:30-5:30 PM (final project due)