Interactive Websites

This topic covers a wide range of different websites, from blogs, to polls to news websites - or even websites requiring visitors to register in order to get a personalised service. Whilst this covers a wide range of different types of system, it all essentially comes to down to taking information from the user and storing it in a database, and then displaying this information, after processing and calculations, to other users.

As this is such a broad topic we will provide you with a personalised lesson plan and estimate of lessons needed once we know what it is you'd like to achieve.

PHP and MySQL

PHP and MySQL are two of the post popular standards used for Internet programming, sites such as Facebook, Yahoo! and Wikipedia make use of the them, and there are many job oppurtunities for those proficient in them. PHP is a scripting language, used to process and manipulate data, and MySQL is a database system, used to store the data that PHP has processed.

You'll learn about designing and creating MySQL database structures for your data, and how to write scripts in PHP that can retrieve, store and output this data to the user.