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Thread ID: 88635	2008-04-03 07:10:00	Website help	gary67 (56)	Press F1

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655792	2008-04-06 06:30:00	My goal is to be able to have people registering and logging in, also to turn this my website into a shopping cart website (see below link):thanks	acronum (13577)
655793	2008-04-06 07:16:00	Then I strongly suggest you pay someone to do this - you don't have anything even approaching the skill to implement this, unless you are happy to use something like an out-of-the box oscommerce install.	Erayd (23)
655794	2008-04-07 04:55:00	Well, i would really like to get a login form working at least, my friend gave me all his source code, and my teacher said not to give up so quickly . I have had a play and found ASP and i am trying to merge 1 and 1 together now . One quote i really like; 'i have not failed; i have just found 400 ways that do not work' - thomas edison . My teacher thought that this really comes into play with something like this . Thanks,	acronum (13577)
655795	2008-04-07 07:16:00	Do you have Windows server, or a Linux server with mono installed, or a hosting account with access to either of these? You will need it for ASP scripting. If you haven't already got one, get a book - it will make your life a LOT easier.	Erayd (23)
655796	2008-04-08 03:29:00	step 1: Learn php / mysql. step 2: Study "Joomla" and "virtuemart". step 3: Get hosting or setup own server with php/ mysql. step 4: Install joomla and virtuemart. step 5: build the site.	hkeyzer (9827)
655797	2008-04-08 07:50:00	I don't have a server, but my friend (who generously is hosting me) has a web server, and i have filezilla ftp client. and i am learning PHP at the moment.	acronum (13577)
655798	2008-04-08 08:20:00	With an HTML site the user's computer asks the server for a page and the server says "Yup, got it" and serves it up exactly as it is written. When you want the page to download with information out of a database it is quite different. - The user's computer asks for a page - The server sees that the file extension is no longer .htm (or .html) and passes the page to another server to fetch the data - The second server fetches the data and passes the completed page back to the first server - The first server serves it up to the user's computer. If the user goes "View Source" they see the results of the page - not the original queries in it. The three common languages for this type of work are: - php - asp - cfm (cold fusion) Which language you use depends on two things: - Which language you understand and use - Which language your host computer supports (it's kind of frustrating to write a beautiful site in Cold Fusion only to discover that your host uses an ASP server instead!) So first off find out what server language your host supports then buy a book.	Mercury (1316)
655799	2008-04-09 05:28:00	server supports all except CFM (not working) and i have dreamweaver for dummies which i am working through thanks	acronum (13577)
655800	2008-04-09 06:16:00	You need a book on whatever scripting language you want to use, not a book on Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver isn't really a scripting tool.	Erayd (23)
655801	2008-04-09 06:46:00	You have to understand that what you're wanting to do is to write a program that produces a webpage. You're not simply writing HTML, you're actually programming. So any books on creating a website, while useful, won't help you learn programming. What you're wanting to do is actually quite complex -- writing scripts to interrogate and update databases (either in ASP or PHP, and using MySQL or Access) is quite a big "first step". Having said that, there's no reason why you can't make a start! :) I've found a really useful site to recommend to people is W3Schools (http://www.w3schools.com/), which has some very useful info and examples to get you going. Other than that, as other people have said, it's time to get a book on whichever scripting language you're going to learn, and turn to page 1.	davehartley (3487)
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