Dan
The New Helper.Net gives me great Anxiety... o.O;;
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I have come upon several questions that are on my mind and although I do a lot of online research, sometimes the obvious questions are overlooked in many tutorials and forums because of their simplicity or my lack of knowledge on what to search to find my answers. Maybe someone here could answer a few simple questions and set me in the right direction.
1. content management systems. I understand that you can keep the content separate from the layout, but I don't want to live by a premade template. Is there a way to simply specify in your website with brackets or something where to pull the content from? How exactly do these systems work? If you are not using a blog, is it even needed? I don't want to learn to use one if it's unnecessary. And at my grasp of knowledge at the moment, it would be a big sidetrack probably.
[del]2. is there a way to keep the template html separate from the content easily? The header/navbar/footer shouldn't change across 99% of my pages, so it seems foolish to have to copy and paste info into each page that way. If I wanted to change or add a link, for example, I would have to go edit all of my pages. At this point, it's not a problem, but I could imagine it being one in the future. Any advice on this subject?
edit: Dreamweaver template solves my problem for now, but it would still be nice to know that I could plug in a navbar with server scripts before the html is interpreted.[/del]
[del]3. PHP or ASP?[/del]
[del]4. I am using PHP at the moment. I have a form that uses an action to a PHP page for server-side stuff. Can I do this with all PHP related stuff? Or should I make the pages have the php extension instead of html? Javascript is really cool because you can have it in a separate file and just throw answers back to the original html. Can PHP be utilized this way or is it a stupid thought? It feels weird to have to lock a page into the php extension just to use one form for example.[/del]
[del]5. textfield has a drag spot at lower right side.... you can drag this sucker really big. css textarea{resize:none;} doesn't seem to change it as I have been told. why?[/del]
[del]6. how do i start learning about how to make a login and set up a session and then permit access to certain pages based on being logged in... I know this is broad which is why i need a bit of direction. I'm a database noob and it doesn't seem like you can find this stuff online in words and expressions that I understand. Sure i can learn some sql... but.... how do i actually use it in practice?[/del]
[del]7. can you use javascript to validate form fields BEFORE sending to action=whatever.php ?[/del]
If you can answer any of these areas I would appreciate it. I'm not being lazy... it's just hard to find some answers without bringing up 20 more while trying to research online. Thanks guys!
1. content management systems. I understand that you can keep the content separate from the layout, but I don't want to live by a premade template. Is there a way to simply specify in your website with brackets or something where to pull the content from? How exactly do these systems work? If you are not using a blog, is it even needed? I don't want to learn to use one if it's unnecessary. And at my grasp of knowledge at the moment, it would be a big sidetrack probably.
[del]2. is there a way to keep the template html separate from the content easily? The header/navbar/footer shouldn't change across 99% of my pages, so it seems foolish to have to copy and paste info into each page that way. If I wanted to change or add a link, for example, I would have to go edit all of my pages. At this point, it's not a problem, but I could imagine it being one in the future. Any advice on this subject?
edit: Dreamweaver template solves my problem for now, but it would still be nice to know that I could plug in a navbar with server scripts before the html is interpreted.[/del]
[del]3. PHP or ASP?[/del]
[del]4. I am using PHP at the moment. I have a form that uses an action to a PHP page for server-side stuff. Can I do this with all PHP related stuff? Or should I make the pages have the php extension instead of html? Javascript is really cool because you can have it in a separate file and just throw answers back to the original html. Can PHP be utilized this way or is it a stupid thought? It feels weird to have to lock a page into the php extension just to use one form for example.[/del]
[del]5. textfield has a drag spot at lower right side.... you can drag this sucker really big. css textarea{resize:none;} doesn't seem to change it as I have been told. why?[/del]
[del]6. how do i start learning about how to make a login and set up a session and then permit access to certain pages based on being logged in... I know this is broad which is why i need a bit of direction. I'm a database noob and it doesn't seem like you can find this stuff online in words and expressions that I understand. Sure i can learn some sql... but.... how do i actually use it in practice?[/del]
[del]7. can you use javascript to validate form fields BEFORE sending to action=whatever.php ?[/del]
If you can answer any of these areas I would appreciate it. I'm not being lazy... it's just hard to find some answers without bringing up 20 more while trying to research online. Thanks guys!