PhpDaddy

I program in C++ and HTML, but I know next to nothing about PHP. Normally I'd just learn by hitting "view source" on every webpage I see, but PHP is inaccessible because, as I understand it, it's server-side and isn't even sent to my computer.

Essentially, I want to write a webpage similar to this, in that it will contain text, annotations, categories, etc. The crux is that it must be fragmented into verses that can be associated with other text (an annotation) and separated into categories (for automated "display this category" functionality). Naturally, I can't use HTML for this because it would require a lot of extra work and would be completely inflexible; I'd need to create a distinct page for every single possibility and thus if I wanted to change the formatting it would take weeks.

tl;dr: I need to know how to...

• include a page of text on each of hundreds of such webpages

• occasionally include an annotation alongside a single paragraph in this text

• associate any given paragraph with a category (ideally, I could use more than one category if needed)

• let the user click "category X" and display all paragraphs marked as X within the section they're viewing (i.e. could be an entire play, an act, or a chapter)

Please suggest how this can be most efficiently done. I'm a fast learner, so don't worry about being too explicit; even naming the concept I'd need to research would be helpful. If I'm severely underestimating this complexity, I'm willing to pay someone to write it for me. Bear in mind that I'm a college student, not a corporate fat cat.

Note: I've already written almost all of the content I'll be using, but naturally want the ability to adjust it whenever I'd like. I only need to know what code I'll need to put where and how to structure the content to facilitate the use of PHP.

Thanks!

Here is a crude way to manipulate other users' PHP sessions:

http://pastebin.com/HxJK0271

Why manipulate other users' PHP sessions? You could remotely log other users out or remotely log yourself out (whether by completely deleting the session or just modifying it). You could also make it so that when an admin downgrades a user's permissions, that downgrade takes effect immediately instead of upon the user's next login. For instance, let's say that in the footer of every page on your site, there is a "Create New User" link. Then an admin changes your permissions. Now the link will no longer be in the footer.

My question is what is the correct way to do this? As mentioned, the method linked to above is crude. Thanks!

One important requirement is that it doesn't require installing anything on the server.

Thanks!

Greetings,

Lately, coming to the end of my 3rd semester of classes (2nd year) of school, I find myself more and more worried about finding programming work, albeit I do have another year left, I have a few concerns that I have brought up with my classmates/teachers, and nobody else seems as worried as me.

A little backstory, I graduated at 21 from this same college with a diploma in Network Engineering, and I was quite successful for 5 years in the industry, becoming a team lead and eventually management. I decided to go back to school because I just did not feel like that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life and I found myself either at a point where I would move for work or stay and get some more schooling. I have no real life commitments except bills so I said fuck it and went for it.

Now here I am in school, second year, taking C#, JS, and PHP. Next semester we are slated to start ASP. Of all these languages, I have very much fallen in love with PHP, I like it's flexibility, I like how it works on many different levels as front end or backend, I just love how it feels, it seems to flow naturally to me, where I struggle with C# and grasping concepts and all the background work the IDE does for me, I can see exactly what I am doing in PHP. Now before I propose to this language so to speak, I had some questions.

Now I know that you never fully commit to one language, that's just stupid (and I cannot admit I haven't been interested in RoR, because I think it is a great language from what i've seen.) but regardless, how do you know if you are ready for real world work? It just feels like all of these little finance apps we build, a mortgage calculator, etc.., the only stuff that has felt of value is building connections to databases and pulling/pushing data into them and stuff like that. From a designer point of view even, I feel like I am not ready, I can do the data modeling it seems but front end design looks terrible (although functionality is there).

I guess I am just looking to some of you more senior developers what you would expect someone like me, fresh out of school, to be able to do. What are some of the day to day tasks you would assign me? (This is assuming I want to be there and want to learn more, not just collect a cheque)

Also, what salary/compensation could someone like me expect, obviously I know I wouldn't get my previous salary right out of school.

Thanks guys

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Is there any point to this code?

I'm not sure if linking a blog post by yourself is okay, the faq says not to frequently link to your own content, I hope you let this one slip by.

I just started my own blog (deployed an hour ago), and an article that you might be interested in is Optimising a PHP site with KCacheGrind and XDebug.

I'm open to any kind of feedback.