During the last two weeks we were busy writing PHP and going through the four steps of CRUD. We also had our midterm!
So, first, let’s talk about the midterm! The challenge was to restore the WordPress site Bill provided us with in less than 10min. So that entailed what we talked about in an earlier post… Replacing the WP content folder in the FTP client and the tables on our database in SiteGround. And then just make sure that we update the new URL with the SQL sequence in the SQL tab of our phpMyAdmin. We all did really well! And that’s it, we are pro’s now ? Moving on…
For the rest of the class period on the past two weeks, we kept on working with PHP and going through all the steps of CRUD (which stands for create, read, update, and delete). We built a one-page web application that communicated with our database to do each one of those CRUD steps. Even though it was a simple application, it was actually cool to see it working and realize that some simple PHP coding can do a lot.
I am inspired to go after some more practicing with PHP until I feel like I know my stuff, or at least some stuff (hehe) I want to be able to write something without copying it and maybe be able to recognize where there’s a mistake on any particular PHP code.
This week we will probably start to learn how to build our own themes on WordPress. Very, very exciting!! I think we will see PHP in action as well, and all the practicing we did with it is going to come in hand.