RPGnet & Learning PHP
Dec. 1st, 2002 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aSo, Friday was theoretically a holiday for much of the country. However, since Friday is my traditional get-stuff-done/do-big-projects/program day, I decided I wasn't about to give it up for a silly day off.
So, I spent another Friday working on RPGnet. This time around I codified & abstracted a lot of my design work from last week and started rolling it out to the rest of the site. There's now some relatively standard headers and footers, but the individual pages are going to take more work to get them to totally fit into the new design paradigm. I started off by concentrating on the popular Reviews page and am quite happy with the results, though there's still some tweaking I want to do.
In the process, I've started to muck with the backend programs at RPGnet which has required learning PHP. I've always found that the best way to learn a new programming language is to just start mucking with the code and thus get an intuitive feel for what works and what doesn't and how it treats commands, variables, and all the rest.
In another few weeks I'll probably crack open the PHP books I have sitting around ...
So, I spent another Friday working on RPGnet. This time around I codified & abstracted a lot of my design work from last week and started rolling it out to the rest of the site. There's now some relatively standard headers and footers, but the individual pages are going to take more work to get them to totally fit into the new design paradigm. I started off by concentrating on the popular Reviews page and am quite happy with the results, though there's still some tweaking I want to do.
In the process, I've started to muck with the backend programs at RPGnet which has required learning PHP. I've always found that the best way to learn a new programming language is to just start mucking with the code and thus get an intuitive feel for what works and what doesn't and how it treats commands, variables, and all the rest.
In another few weeks I'll probably crack open the PHP books I have sitting around ...
