Beginner PHP Project

[Raven_Writer]

What would you suggest as to being a good starting ground into PHP for a beginner?

I'm looking into starting a project, since school is almost out (2 weeks left :'().

Thank you.

[Guest]

Try writing a login/logout session-based content server.

As in, a set of PHP scripts that would deliver content from a database (mySQL or you could write your own db format). It would also be able to register users and keep track of who's logged in.

Maybe this is an intermediate project, I don't know...

[Raven_Writer]

Try writing a login/logout session-based content server.

As in, a set of PHP scripts that would deliver content from a database (mySQL or you could write your own db format). It would also be able to register users and keep track of who's logged in.

Maybe this is an intermediate project, I don't know...I was thinking of something like that.

Basically, what I was gonna do is this:
1. Login/register script
2. Comment script (based on #1)

Then just go off from there. Since I can't really get my filesystem code to work, I was going to use MySQL.

[Venkatesh]

Most PHP people that I know started with login/logout systems and database connectivity. It seems like a good way to start learning PHP and connecting it to web based systems.

I still don't know how to use PHP with a database, because my first and only PHP project was a an SMTP server coupled with a connector to a POP3 server. That is how I am able to have a Windows system be my email server, for free. =) Unfortunately, it is not perfectly done - there are occational weird, unexplainable problems with email. I found PHP was quite a good language for someone wanting to write basic networking software.