Second Encounter with PHP

My other assignment in this semester was to develop a website (web application) using PHP. I’ve ever used PHP before when I had been asked to amend my office website. That time I only needed to amend the registration form, but I felt excited, even though I only depended on the internet.

This time before I started the assignment I prepared myself by reading book about developing web application using PHP. The book title is “Aplikasi WEB dengan PHP dan MySQL” by Kasiman Peranginangin. As you see, the book is written in Bahasa Indonesia, but it’s a good book, even though I felt some of the definitions are wrong. It also has sample to develop about 3 complex applications, from the easiest to the hardest.

Based on the book, I proposed to develop a web application called “Movie Info”. The purpose of the web application is to show information of movies and let the registered users to give reviews to any movies. The book was really help me to develop the web application. I developed it roughly in 2 days, day and night. The web application is simple in appearance, but not bad in features (simple features, of course).

I think PHP is a good programming language. It has many useful function, and has native functions for accessing MySQL. But, compare to desktop programming languages, such as Visual Basic, PHP has a bit different way of programming structure. One thing that I notice is PHP can call the same PHP page but showing a different interface! I don’t know how ASP works, but maybe all of web (server script) programming languages has the same characteristic.

Other thing that I surprise is WordPress is also built by PHP! Oh, my God, how can they do that? I’m really amazed and excited. I guess in the same time I fell in love with PHP.

~ by DakoChan on November 9, 2008.