PHP Stuff

This is a place I put together about three years ago, when I was starting to learn PHP. Some links to things are below, starting with most recent first.

If you're learning PHP, the best thing for you to do is to get an internet server account. I started learning it with PHP installed on my Windows computer, but you soon hit some walls on what you can actually do, and noone can visit it anyway, can they. The hosting service I use is LinkSky, $4.95 a month and you get PHP, MySQL and a lot more. The start-up price is a bit steep at $29, but the monthly is great and I haven't had any complaints with any one of the 6 sites I host with them.

What's PHP & MySQL? Check these two links for lots of PHP tutorials and resources and if you want database info, lots of MySQL information.

• i-fubar.com for more PHP scripts, including poetry generators and advertisement rotation scripts.
• Date values in PHP & MySQL, a reference table for working with date and time in PHP and MySQL.
• A Friends Fan site, a single script pulls all the info from a 4-table MySQL database. (If there's enough interest in how this was done, I'll work up a descriptive tutorial. E-mail me to express interest.)
• Teaching English in Japan.
• ELT Events Calendar is an expanded version of the one below.
• National events calendar for a teaching organization, on a different site. It's all generated by a PHP script that pulls the event information from a MySQL database.
• Mileage Conversion Tool, miles per gallon (US) to kilometers per liter, and vice versa. See & copy the script here. It's an early effort; I've redone it here but the one you can copy still works.
• Convert (kg and lb, degrees F and C, tall beers and regular beers, etc.) Created March 2002. You can see & copy the script here.
• Simple calculator, closely based on the one in Meloni's book.