Tutorial Suggestions
 

It's not always easy thinking of a subject to write about, so if you have any articles/tutorials that you'd really like to see on TalkPHP then please use this thread to let us know!

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Somebody requested an MVC tutorial on mIRC :) If you want to take that.

I'd like to see more OOP-related tutorials on design patterns and such. I liked this tutorial you wrote, Karl. :)

fiouuu a complete tuto on MVC programming isn't easy at all but coul be veeeery useful

Maybe a tutorial how to code a complete CMS system in OOP.

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I'm sure you could think of more features..
But it would be awesome, very hard to write a tutorial though, cause it would be very VERY long, but nevertheless, very awesome :D

I'd actually really appreciate a simple guide on how to create plug-ins for vB!

Perhaps a simple step by step on creating a plug-in to display the latest 10 posted threads (from that forum) on the showthread page in the footer.

How to create the query then get it to display the data, nothing fancy, just the nuts and bolts so we get to know how things work.

I know you'd day that's one for vBorg - but I've looked and there's nothing there really.

It would also be a great way to get new members here from different avenues ;-)

If you create this step by step I'll put it in my sig on vb.org for a few months ^^

A series on database designs. From explanations to how to actually represent database designs graphically. :-)

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?

Thanks for all the suggestions, keep them coming. I've actually started a tutorial on a vBulletin hack, basically showing how I made the home page for TalkPHP. I'm not sure if I should continue now?

Yes please!!!!!!! I (and a lot of other vb users) would really appreciate it 8-)

I will also add the link to my sig on vB.org - hopefully that will help get vb users interested in coding, to come here too ^^

Yea i suppose a basic OOP tutorial might be a good idea, I'd offer to write one, but I'm pressed for spare time atm. The only thing i'd say is that its quite hard to write a tutorial that would address the 'When not to use OOP' question as its entirely situational and often that question is answered from experience and also just plain common sense, its quite a tough one.
If i find the time i'll give it a crack.

I'd love to see your article Karl it sounds interesting.

I second the vote for MVC, as well as the CMS... Also, maybe some framework related stuff, such as using the Zend Framework etc. I know that those will come in handy for a lot of people.

I've tried Kahona PHP Framework lately. It, in my opinion, lends perfectly for learning the MVC concept.

Here are a few tutorials which covers the Controller and View aspects, but the Model part is missing. So, a tutorial on how to make a guestbook (or something similar) with KahonaPHP should be really come in handy!

Keep up the good work, Karl (and the other crewmembers)!

An advanced mysql class tutorial would be nice as well.
I've been looking for one, but can't find any, and I'd really like to work with OOP for at least the database part - as I've heard it's easier :)

I may have the remedy for that ;) Creating my own as we speak. Simply every function is used. From mysql_insert_id() to mysql_free_result and from mysql_close to mysql_num_rows. ;) PM me so I know you're interested and when it's finished completly, I'll share it. :-)

I personally would love a tutorial detailing what you are all talking about. The lingo that you use completely confuses me beyond belief.


Framework, Pagination, MVC programming... sheesh :/ Talk about a lot of time on google trying to figure all this stuff out.

Well, I am currently only focussing on one thing, and that is PHP. Here and there some XHTML with CSS, but that's mainly it. Still trying to figure out all the functions PHP provides me with, so I'll be busy for a couple of months for sure. And it's worth it, I can make a living out of my hobby. :-)

Well, I think there are enough tutorials on topics like MVC and OOP in general.

PHP is a very useful language but it's mostly used for websites. In fact you can create GUI- and console (e.g. by using ncurses) applications but these features are quite unknown and there is not much literature about that. I've only seen one book about PHP-Gtk written in 2005. There are plenty of books about PHP itself but not many for those 'advanced' users.

So in my opinion it's more meaningful to create tutorials on those barely known features of PHP. Today I discovered a PECL extension to compile PHP code to get binary files which can be used like an ordinary Windows ".exe" file. That's quite useful when you need to write proprietary code in PHP. There's also a PHP extension called PHP-Gtk which adds functionality to create 'real' GUI applications using PHP.

Perhaps a subforum for PHP-Gtk would make sense. I'm using PHP-Gtk for some months now and it's really great. I've been looking for forums about PHP-Gtk but I wasn't able to find anything except of mailing lists and a PHP IRC which isn't a real replacement for a forum. PHP-Gtk is rarely unknown and many tutorials I was able to find were only cover PHP-Gtk 1. If TalkPHP will introduce such a subforum I'm consent to help by creating tutorials, etc. What do you think of such a forum?

Thank you very much for your responses.

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 :)

I would love a tutorial on plugin systems and how to write one yourself.. I want to make some clean and easy to use plugin system for my tiny framework I'm making and don't know where to start :-@