Week 2

This week has seemed to be far more unproductive than I’d have wished. I’ve spent all week trying to get to grips with using PHP and MySQL together that I feel like I’ve done little work all week and haven’t progressed much since last week. Some of the problems I was encountering with adding data to a MySQL database were due to the WAMP server I’ve installed on my laptop. So I decided to upload them on my webhost and try them there, but came across even more problems with the webhost. I now have to purchase a new webhosting package from a different company and waste time messing about setting the new account up.

Thursday at college also felt like I didn’t achieved much when I spent all day trying to figure out how to create the code to upload an image to the MySQL data base. This was the main reason for me to try my webhost when my WAMP server would not allow me to input data into a data base, so I’m still not sure whether the code I spent all day on will work.

This has really increased my stress levels, with time running out fast and the fact I’m finding it very hard to understand the PHP code used to upload to a database. That coupled with the problems encountered this week and the reality that I still don’t know how to display data from a database on a webpage, makes me think that I set myself too much of a task in my SMLP. I’m going to put a lot of time into this photo gallery and I really want to get it working the way I planned, but at this moment in time I feel I have too much to do and no were near enough time to do it in.

The only obvious progress I’ve made this week is with the design of the photo gallery as I now have a design for the webpage, I’ve kept the layout simple, but that’s how the client wants it. I hope the next week goes more to plan and enables me to progress to a stage were the photo gallery is coming together and I will know I can get it complete to the level I first planned.

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