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[Donovan]

Hello everyone, I am ready to start learning on CodeCall.net again, but first I need to know exactly what I am going to learn this time.

My friend owns a website as a freelance writer (mymusicmorphine.com). I want to start learning everything I need to know, to be able to make the website have all the features and look the way we want it to, without paying an expensive developer and without me sitting back not knowing the first thing I would need to learn..

So, from what I know it is a WordPress run website, so what are all the things I should know to be able to have us take this site in any direction we may want to go?

I know, I might need Java for this? I guess it really depends on what exactly it is I want to do with the website, but maybe you guys can give me an idea on what programming languages I need for this, and which one I should start with.

Thank you, I appreciate any help given.
Donovan

[Alexander]

Wordpress is a fairly large software, many people have written documentation or guides (including Wordpress itself) on how to style or modify it to suit your needs.

Speaking in languages PHP is what runs it (fundamental), MySQL (or similar database management system) the code can use to store data with and should be learned during your studies of PHP.

There are a variety of plugins to suit your needs if you come across one (i.e. events, etc.) however you will have tools provided to you for building your own in code, if it comes to it. I've no personal experience developing Wordpress, I am sure many similar questions can be found online if you search as well.

Alexander.

[Donovan]

Thank you Alexander, I appreciate the response. My only confusion with how these languages work in conjuction with each other is, I am not sure what area of the language I need to study first in PHP. Unless using PHP with wordpress, would be the same as coding any other PHP website, then it is just a matter of learning the language itself correct? Because I know in some languages, you may focus on a specific coding style, or area of the language, or it is two languages built together creating a different syntax which can be confusing.

Thanks,
Donovan

[WingedPanther]

PHP is a pretty easy language to start learning. Add SQL to use MySQL and you'll be in good shape.

[Donovan]

WingedPanther said:

PHP is a pretty easy language to start learning. Add SQL to use MySQL and you'll be in good shape.

Yeah, I am picking up really quick. Thank god I have programming experience right? I think it shouldn't take me too long to be fluent. Thanks again, for all your responses. Where would I be without CodeCall!? Well, probably somewhere else, but I wouldn't be as happy haha.

[WingedPanther]

If you want to get some ideas, you may find the tutorial series I did in the PHP section about creating a "large" project helpful. It discusses a bunch of issues you're likely to run into.

[Alexander]

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Unless using PHP with wordpress, would be the same as coding any other PHP website

The fortunate thing, is that Wordpress has many years of API/framework design behind it to aid the PHP programmer.

For example, you can create a full fledge page in Wordpress with only a handful of lines (using their classes.)

Alexander.

[Donovan]

Ah, this is good news then. It will save me the time of endless lines of code and long nights. But, learning just PHP and MySQL will give me the knowledge I need to know how to use only a "hand full" of lines? Or do I need to research into Wordpress' dynamics a bit more and understand the underlying construction behind it?

Thanks,
Donovan

P.S: Thanks for all the help you two, definitely going to dish out some reputation!