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| Posted by liam_tmt7, 07-01-2009, 11:38 AM | | Hi Guys
Been a long time since ive been active on these forums. So time to make that change!
Just looking for some advice;
Has anyone come across a tutorial for creating a directory style script like hot script?
I understand there are a lot of downloads available out there, but I was wondering if there was any tutorials rather than downloading scripts and trying to disect the code!
Thanks
Liam
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| Posted by kieransimkin, 07-01-2009, 07:29 PM | | I think constructing a directory website from scratch is quite a large undertaking - the tutorial to write it would be more of a book. In my experience you'll normally get off the ground quicker if you start by customizing something that's already available anyway. While it is feasible to create an entire directory website from scratch in something like PHP or ASP, why reinvent the wheel?
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| Posted by liam_tmt7, 07-02-2009, 11:51 AM | | Kieran
Thanks for your comments, I understand there is scripts like that out there, and im not trying to re-invent the wheel, just trying to learn
Ive ordered a book from sitepoint to get me back in the swing of things, along time since ive done any web design / dev work
Thanks
Liam
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| Posted by mwatkins, 07-02-2009, 01:17 PM | | Writing a simple version of something like Hotscripts is certainly within the reach of someone who is keen to learn and/or further develop their web application programming skills. In fact having a reference application to model your app against is not a bad way of learning at all.
I've not seen any hotscript-like tutorials in my travels. You will often find tutorials for various web application framework toolkits; commonly they'll implement something like a weblog in 20 minutes or a recipe db app or something a little less ambitious than a community code sharing site.
What language will you be using, or is that an open question?
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| Posted by liam_tmt7, 07-02-2009, 02:08 PM | | Im looking at learning php.
Do you have any tips?
Liam
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