The last fortnight have been very demanding on the brain. I now believe how it takes people years to learn PHP. Reflecting on my difficulties, I have realised that I am going to have to be smart with what information I take in. With so much little bits to take in, it really does make my brain work overtime. I tend to learn everything not very well, rather than a just a few important few things, but very well. Hopefully once Craig is here, he can help me highlight areas I will need for WordPress, so I can put more focus on these and take them in better.
This section of learning saw me meet my target and cover the next 5 chapters and get upto the point of just starting to create a Content Management System. I seem to have come a long way in only two weeks and If someone had of said I would have been about to create a Content Management System this time two weeks ago, I wouldn’t have believed them. However as mentioned before, I am not confident of the quality I have learned the chapters and I think I would still need to refer back to the book a lot. I am going to revisit these chapters to try and take them in better.
In a brief summary of my learning, I covered the rest of the PHP chapter which introduced me to conditional code. I covered more on MySQL and learnt how to publish and link the databases online. I finally learnt how to structure a PHP page and where to include any HTML, so I could now create a working web page made up of PHP and HTML.
Targets next two weeks;
- Complete next three chapters and use W3C Schools to reinforce this sections’ learning.
- Create tables for The Fiction Section website.
- Start to list the PHP functions that will be required and research examples.
