>I'm using Windows 98 with Apache, mysql and PHP. > >I'm in the process of learning PHP and would like to find a >few tutorials on HP/mysql bulletin boards. > > >I know that there are a few that you can download but I am trying to find a >tutorial that will let me anylaze the syntax and logic of the code so that I >can understand and breakdown the steps in how a BB program works. > >Any URL's will be helpful.
It is unclear what your question is about? a) would you like to learn program in php and/or SQL b) would you like to learn how to write a BBS software? If you want to learn php consult the online manual at http://www.php.net/docs.php To learn more about mysql consult http://www.mysql.com/documentation/index.html If you would like to learn how to write a BSS then I would not recommend someone to learn to write a BBS software by doing reverse engineering of some BBS software - trying to understand a design from that level is not the right way to learn the "programming" of a BBS, e.g. to design a BBS. The important thing must be to learn how a BBS functionally fits together, and that is very hard to understand straight out from the code unless you don't have lots of programming experience. (Reverse engineering *is* difficult!) Looking at just one implementation of a BBS wont help you either, at most you will learn how that specific implementations works. Judging from the formulation of you question I assume you don't have the sufficient experience to do this, so I would then instead recommend you to try to learn the basic principles about HTML and SQL before attempting to write a BBS - other wise your BBS will be more or less a "relabling" of the system you study - and you probably don't want that! My recommendation is someone of the following: 1) If you know how to program: first learn how webserver and databases works and interact, then it is easy to design and write a BBS. 2) If not, learn the basic skills and proceed to 1) 3) Hire someone with sufficient skill to do the job for you. The first two is an advice you ought to follow if you really wants to *learn* how a BBS software system in this form works, but if you just wants to have something up and running, then 3) should be your choice. If you already know how to do programming then 1) wont take that long time to achieve anyway, at the very least it will be fare cost effectively than trying to reverse engineer a BBS. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
