Week 1

The first week has given me a good insight into the number of jobs available in the local area and also how many of them require some knowledge of PHP. This makes me feel learning PHP was the right choice as I will be more employable. I also found that may jobs look for the knowledge of MySQL as addition to PHP so this also increases my employability.

The first week has also given me a good introduction into PHP and MySQL, but I feel reading the code from the book is not enabling me to learn and remember the code fluently as I learn better from a trial and error method. I have only just got to the stage of copying code from the book and trying to understand what everything does and I feel next week will be a lot more beneficial to me as I’m going to start finding out what the code actually does. For this I’ll start by doing some tutorials and playing with the code to see what happens and what changes occur to the outcome.

Next week will see the start of the design process of the photo gallery website I have chosen to do for my SMLP. I have planned to create a photo gallery for a photography student to use as a portfolio. The website will include an upload feature so the student is able to upload their work without the need to edit the website. At this point I feel that I may have tried to do too much as I have little PHP knowledge and think the upload feature may be beyond what I can achieve in the time I have.

I have also come to realize how little time I have left to create the website as there are only three weeks left and I’m still not very confident with coding PHP and MySQL and to add to that I still need to design the website and record the process of it. This next week could make or break my SMLP as I need to really crack on with the design of the website and get a good knowledge of PHP and MySQL so I’m able to get to a position where I feel comfortable with creating the website.

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