Category Archives: PHP coding
The Fixture Exchange, Donation to S.P.I.R.E
For the last ten years or more I have been working with Pete and Liz Conner to run an online site for youth rugby teams to make fixtures at short notice, when their normal ones have fallen through. The situation … Continue reading
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Single Category RSS feed in WordPress
So now having installed WordPress, it turns out that it is infinitely customisable! Oh joy… more to learn about! The task was to be able to build a single category RSS feed that people can subscribe to if they so … Continue reading
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PHP import or export to CSV
This post seems to have been lost in the move from Drupal to WordPress, so here it is again: A while ago now I was working on the designmyschool.net website and one of the functions we had to build was … Continue reading
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The Fixture Exchange, PHP Coding, Dreamweaver, MX Kollection
For quite a while now I have been helping to run a fixture exchange system for youth rugby clubs. It started off life as a phone based pencil and paper system, but we moved it onto the Internet in about 1993. More recently it has been database driven and we relied on a company to build it using .ASP
All has been well until the host company said they were no longer going to host .ASP and that I should get this converted to PHP.
Now, I am no web coder but for a few years I have been working with some very skilled people. Sadly they haven’t had the time to help build this for me, but have offered loads of suggestions and ideas. I really needed to get this done myself.
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PHP
Blimey… and there was I thinking I didn’t have time to stop to learn a scripting langauge! How wrong can you be.
Well, it isn’t really about having time is it? It’s all about purpose and whether or not the need is there which drives the desire to learn. In my case it is, since I am part of a team working on a project with the Design Council and the site makes use of PHP (and Flash – but that’s a whole other story for later).
I’m still trying to make sense of it, but thanks to yet another colleague I am beginning to understand it a little bit more. Unlike any other formal learning, where a chunk at a time is taken, tried, repeated, applied, etc, I am having to dive into the deep end and see the entire thing holistically. It’s like reading a book but only knowing a fraction of the words, yet trying to understand the story… tough call.
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