Looking for PHP Guru to teach me PHP :) - MSN messenger lessons

[dkr]

Hi,

Lets get straight to the point . My name is Donny, and I really really need to learn some good old PHP. I am a very limited beginner with little to no skill at PHP. I can understand very little, and can barely create simple scripts. Books don't do very good for me, so I think one on one lessons with someone professional at PHP would be better. At least I can get most of my questions answered and is here to teach me exactly what I need to know.

I am looking for someone who is very advanced at PHP, and know what they are doing. I will be requiring information such as previous work, and possibly a portfolio in order to prove how into PHP you are. Please do not PM me if you are as far off as I am, and can only create simple easy-to-make scripts.

A little about how far I am so far as to skills is involved. I have read 'PHP/MySQL Programming for the absolute beginner' up to 1/3 of the whole book. It gets too boring for me, and I can't go any further because I don't understand the 'IF/Else' part. This is what I know so far:

HTML
*Add PHP code to a Web page
*create a variable in PHP
*recognize the main types of variables
*name variables appropriately
*output the values of variables in your scripts
*perform basic operations on variables
*read variables from an HTML form
*create a random integer
*use the if structure to change the program's behavior
*write conditions to evaluate variables
*work with the else clause to provide instructions when a condition is not met
*use the switch statement to work with multiple choices
build functions to better manage your code

*-needs reviewing :D

That's basically all I know. I want to become a skilled PHP programmer, and this is how I should start, in my opinion, until I get the hang of it. I need to learn 'loops', and everything else that is basic.

As for pay, I am looking to pay anywhere between $10 to $15 per hour. Lower the better of course. Payment will be via PayPal, and will be paid upon request.

If you are interested in any way, please email me at [email protected]. Please have a messenger ready. Preferably MSN. Please add me: [email protected]. Hope to hear from you soon .

Thank You,
Donny

 

[Keral_Patel]

Hello I can teach you PHP to its best. My classes can be of 2 hours daily out of which I will teach you theory for 1 hour and then give you one hour of practical and I will be online for that one hour.

You can see some of my websites which I have developed in PHP to understand what I am talking about. I will also includde the general things like mod_rewrite, MySQL and others which will be needed along with PHP.

My Sites:

http://www.hotappz.com
http://www.firescripts.com
http://www.hostlime.com
http://www.tluz.com


The above examples are made by me and it includes all the real time experience on RSS, Paypal IPN, Database storage, Login systems, Dynamic Graphs, and other advanced techniques in PHP.

Let me know. Thanks.

Okay now for your queries Here are the answers:

*Add PHP code to a Web page
- Add <?php ?> tags anywhere in the HTML page and you have that block

as php code.


*create a variable in PHP
- $var = 1; Done the variable is created.

*recognize the main types of variables
- Strings, integers, bollean, double and most important varchar.

To check the type of integer gettype() function can be used while to

change the type of variable settype function can be used.


*name variables appropriately
- I prefer microsoft techniques which they taught me when I was doing

MCSD. strings can be "strUser" while Intergers can be "intNumber" so

we can know the variable even after we look at our code one year

later

*output the values of variables in your scripts
- Print or echo. and the variable is outputted

*perform basic operations on variables
- Do anything like $var = 1 + 1;
It gives $var a value of 2. $var = $var + 1; It increments the value

of var named variable by one. $intLen = strlen($strVar); Gets the

length of the variable strVar in intLen.


*read variables from an HTML form
- If the PHP.ini settings are set for register globals on then you

get direct access to use it in your script.
EX: if in login form the textbox name is : "login" and password feild

is "pass" then you can directly use it as $login and $pass

*create a random integer

$rnum = rand(1,10);

creates a random number from 1 to 10 and assigns the random number to

$rnum

*use the if structure to change the program's behavior

if( $intLen <= 10 )
{ // The lenght of string is smaller then 10
$strVar = $strVar . $strVar;
}
else
{
$strVar = substr_replace($strVar, '', 20, -1);$strVar .= "..";
}

*write conditions to evaluate variables
- You can use the above format of if and nested ifs for this

*work with the else clause to provide instructions when a condition

is not met
- Same as above


*use the switch statement to work with multiple choices
build functions to better manage your code
-

switch ($intVar) {
case 0:
   echo "intVar equals 0";
   break;
case 1:
   echo "intVar equals 1";
   break;
case 2:
   echo "intVar equals 2";
   break;
}