Tutorial Suggestions - Page 2

Salathe · 01-03-2008, 01:49 AM

Interesting idea, sjaq. Out of curiosity, what precisely would you be looking for in a 'plugin system' as, in my eyes, that term could cover a variety of things and I'm not sure my idea of a plugin meets your idea of one! That goes out to everyone, what is a plugin system to you?

sjaq · 01-03-2008, 12:01 PM

A plugin system for me is a system that can modify behavior of a script without messing with the core source code, it just "plugs in"

An example, let's say I have a Routing class that matches url's with classes and functions. Then I would like to be able to make a plugin that does something before the routing class and after, to modify the results of that class.

I hope you get what I mean

marxx · 01-03-2008, 01:06 PM

Basic OOP tutorials would be nice.. I mean really basics!

When and how to use OOP, what are benefits of OOP and more general stuff about OOP.
I really want to learn this method but most of OOP tutorials are little too advanced than my skills.. :)

Thanks and have a nice new year!

Brook · 01-03-2008, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karl

Thanks for all the input guys, we've been a little lazy over the holidays but I'm sure things will pick up again in the new year. I for one will be more active then. We've got plenty of ideas now, but we could always use more :)

Look forward to seeing the new articles :)

Esp that one on vB if you get to finish it off

webtuto · 01-03-2008, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jelmer

A tutorial explaining OOP with some practical examples would be great, and it would be nice to know when it's a good idea to use OOP and what for as well.

Brook, I might be able to do a tutorial on that, it's fairly simple actually, I'm pretty sure there are articles which do something similar on vbulletin.org, anyone else interested?

yes im interested too really

Haris · 01-12-2008, 03:48 PM

A tutorial on how to use output control functions. They're generally used to rectify the session and header errors by programmers. I had seen that they're more powerful than that, a tutorial would be nice.

Wildhoney · 01-15-2008, 12:47 AM

They're not bad at all! Will get round to writing plenty of articles after our latest project is all done and dusted

Brook · 01-16-2008, 05:13 AM

What's your latest project WH? :)

I'm really looking forward to the vB one if Karl decides to go ahead and do it - it would help me understand vb tonnes!

Alan @ CIT · 02-28-2008, 12:05 AM

Hi all,

Just wanted to revive this topic as I am after some ideas for new tutorials myself

If you have any tutorial requests, however simple/complex they might seem, don't be afraid to post! If I can't write it, I am sure someone will

Alan

Brook · 02-28-2008, 01:45 PM

Hey Alan... I'd love to see some VB related tutorials if possible.

(Although I'm not sure if you said you still have a copy or note )

Alan @ CIT · 02-28-2008, 02:13 PM

Unfortunately, I haven't writen anything for vBulletin in a couple of years so I wouldn't have a clue where to start nowadays

Alan

Wildhoney · 02-28-2008, 02:16 PM

I'll write some more articles, too

! I'll have a look through this thread later on today and cover 1 or 2.

CHASE · 02-28-2008, 04:22 PM

I'd really like to see a tutorial that gives starting grounds for an advanced SQL class.

In essence, you could start off with a Database interface, and be able to build plugins for MySQL, MySQLi, MSSQL, etc..

I'd like to see you take this, and where you go with it :)

Alan @ CIT · 02-28-2008, 05:04 PM

I remember a post from the past day or 2 where someone mentioned that they where going to write just such a tutorial Chase. Unfortunately, I've just spent the past 10 minutes looking in every forum and can't find it :/

I'm fairly certain I didn't imagine the post but if a tutorial doesn't appear in the next few weeks I'll add it to my list

Alan

marxx · 02-28-2008, 07:48 PM

New request.

Multi-page forms. How to gather all information, how to process data, back button where no data losts! =)

have search this kind tutorial all day long but not found any good!
Thanks!

TlcAndres · 02-28-2008, 08:24 PM

By plugin system do you mean wordpress style plugins that effects the outcome of content?

CHASE · 02-28-2008, 09:39 PM

I mean like

database_interface.php
class_database.php
/databases/mysql_driver.php
/databases/mysqli_driver.php

etc..

So the database class can work with any type of SQL.

TlcAndres · 02-28-2008, 09:46 PM

I'm writing an article for this - but it does not rewrite SQL it simply abstracts the methods used to execute sql.

Alan @ CIT · 02-29-2008, 12:03 AM

Ignore this post, I'm just posting this list (compilied list of all the suggestions in this thread so far) here so I know where it is. I have a nasty habbit of loosing files when I save them to my laptop

Alan

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Basic MVC
Design Patterns
Complete CMS System
- vBulletin Plugins
Database Design
Basic OOP
Zend Framework
- PHP-GTK
Plugin Systems (Pre/Post Dispatch)
Output Buffering
- DB Abstraction Class (DAL/ActiveRecord/ORM)
Multi-page Forms (Sessions)
Array functions