pwuser1 Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Any advice on how to master PHP and JavaScript? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Gretsky Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Welcome here, @pwuser1! You made the best 1st step you could - found this amazing community and one of the best php products out there (with super cool inline docs) . Start a project, solve problems as they come, read the code. This is the way PW changed me from knowing almost nothing to knowing some of it. I am sure you will become much more advanced following the same route though. Good luck! I am sure you could find tons of advice on the Internet, so not giving any generic one. But just for the count here are some links to relevant forum topics: PHP js ...but really tons of it here and elsewhere) By the way, if you want to find something on this forum (like the fact that this question was raised so many times), use special google search like this one I made for myself. Good luck! 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancisChung Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 9 minutes ago, Ivan Gretsky said: By the way, if you want to find something on this forum (like the fact that this question was raised so many times), use special google search like this one I made for myself. Good luck! +1 for the search, Ivan. @pwuser1, the best way is to just get your hands dirty and build some websites that require php/js or both. That's what I did with almost no knowledge of either. Sure you'll get stuck a few times along the way, but that's what the community forum / Stackoverflow / Google/ Ivan's awesome search is for ... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Gretsky Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 @FrancisChung, when I came here someone introduced me to this google search trick. It was some discussion it has to be the default one for the forum search box. But it did not happen (due to some integration problems only @Pete knows about). So all the old-timers use it, as far as I know. Personally I almost never use the in-built search (only when I need to limit the search by thread, but that's rare). Let this topic be a reminder of such a useful tool to learn more from PW forums! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancisChung Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 @Ivan Gretsky / @Pete, Perhaps there should be a pinned item on the Getting Started section? Only took me two and a half years lol ... 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 On the search front, I don't forget that Tracy has a built-in search that lets you choose what part of the site you want to search. It's a shortcut to that Google site search, but modified to the area you choose. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desbest Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 It depends on what you want to make, as what you can do with php and javascript increases every year. So what are you looking to make in php and javascript? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwuser1 Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 @desbest I would like to create apps and websites using PHP and JavaScript, hopefully I don't get mixed up learning both at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desbest Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 4 hours ago, pwuser1 said: @desbest I would like to create apps and wesbites using PHP and JavaScript, hopefully I don't get mixed up learning both at the same time. That's vague. I specifically asked you what you want to make with php and javascript. Every year the possibilities of what you can do in php and javascript increases, so no one person can know everything or how to do everything. It's best to have a skillset of what you want to do rather than learn things you don't need to learn. Below are things you can make with javascript Scraper Bookmarklet PDF Viewer Games Chat room Video and audio chat Audio and video player Video game emulator Below are things you can make with php MVC framework Templating engine Parser Scraper Wordpress/magento/processwire/prestashop/mybb plugins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwuser1 Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 I appreciate your help @desbest, these are very useful things you and the others are mentioning. I didn't even know you can make things like PDFviewer using JS or parser in PHP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desbest Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 So what do you want to make with javascript and php? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwuser1 Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 @desbest to start I want to create websites that are database driven like yellowpages.com. I hope that is specific enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desbest Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 I use WordPress, Codeigniter and Processwire CMS/framework to make websites. Other people will recommend something different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragan Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 Just found this nice collection of open-source PHP + JS projects: https://spatie.be/en/opensource One of them is used in a (very nicely written) PW tutorial http://blog.mauriziobonani.com/processwire-building-a-basic-reserved-area/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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