Thomas Blom Hansen

Building a Dynamic Image Gallery with Image Upload

You know how to make a simple dynamic web site. You know how to write a form. You know how to access URL variables with

Going Public with Your Blog

_GET or

Deleting and Updating Entries

_POST. I say it’s time to put your new knowledge to good use. Let’s build a dynamic image gallery with a form to allow users to upload new images to the gallery. In the process, you will learn quite a bit.

Improving Your Blog with User Comments and Search

You have developed a complete, database-driven blog and even an administration module. But it is all running on your local computer only. Blogs are really about writing for an audience. Your blog will certainly have a limited audience, if it only runs on your local computer. This chapter will show you all you need to know to migrate your blog from your local development environment to an online web host.

Spicing Up Your Image Gallery with JavaScript and CSS

This is how it will be: one chapter will improve the public face of your blog in some way, and the next chapter will focus on improving the secret blog administration module, and they will keep alternating like that. This chapter focuses on improving the secret blog administration module.

Adding Images to Blog Entries

This chapter returns to the public face of your blog. At this point, blog visitors can see a list of all the blog entries you wrote and can click an entry to read all of it.

Showing Blog Entries

This chapter is completely optional reading! You can consider it an invitation to a small detour from PHP. This chapter explores a way to integrate JavaScript into your PHP projects. In the process, you will have to learn some JavaScript to develop an interactive image gallery. You may explore this detour or skip it altogether.

Understanding PHP: Language Basics

The face of your blog is complete! Sure there’s room for improvement, but it is fully functional. The administration module can be used to create blog entries, but there are some serious flaws.

Working with Databases

The entry editor is well on its way. You can use it to create new blog entries, which will be saved in the database. You are probably slowly developing some understanding of the model-view-controller (MVC) paradigm, but surely, you need some more practice to become comfortable using it.

Setting Up a PHP Development Environment

So far, you’ve bypassed the old, cumbersome method of creating a development environment, and you’re now ready to start writing code.