Zikula Community

• **unknown user**
  
  

  • Rank: Registered User
  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Sep 04, 2004
  • Posts: 34

  Posted: Jun 03, 2004 - 06:08 PM

  Hi all,
  
  I have no idea if this is the right place to post this but I'll take a crack at it. I would really like to learn PHP. Specifically, I'd love to be able to help out with Postnuke but I'm such a newbie at PHP that I have no idea where to start. Would anyone have any book and/or website recommendations? Is it possible for a newbie to even help with Postnuke?
  
  I've tried other CMS programs and found that Postnuke is the most understandable, at least for me. I'd like to give something back.

  • 
  •  
• **unknown user**
  

  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 1097

  Posted: Jun 03, 2004 - 09:03 PM

  Although I was a MS Access programmer, I had no knowledge of PHP before. (Ok, being an Access Basic programmer helps but anyway).
  
  I learned by taking some simple mods (FeedBack, Recommend Us, etc.) here and there and doing little modifications. I also took a little module from php_nuke and convert it to PostNuke following the examples I had.
  
  Always have http://www.php.net in your bookmarks, it's the PHP bible.
  
  After a time, I took more complicate mods, and on and on... until I build my first one, and my first block... etc, etc...
  
  Since 2 or 3 years, there has been mucho changes...
  
  So today, I would begin with these mods :
  
  Example
  pncSimpleStatsX
  and other pnRender modules.
  
  Don't forget that there are other ways to contribute to PostNuke such as the support, the documentation, etc...
  
  Have fun ! (that's the basic)
  ;)

  • 
  •  
• markwest
  
  

  • Rank: Team Member
  • Registered: Mar 18, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 6606

  Posted: Jun 03, 2004 - 10:37 PM

  Also see this thread for some useful links.
  
  A good place to start, as chestnut, has pointed out is existing code; pull it apart and see how it works. Create your own modules - there's no better method for learning something than having a project of personal interest to work on - this also ensures you have a goal. This is how I started with PN; I created the advanced_polls module which I was required to address some personal requirements that the core code did not address.
  
  -Mark
  
  --
  Visit My homepage and Zikula themes.

  • 
  •  
• **unknown user**
  
  

  • Rank: Registered User
  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Sep 04, 2004
  • Posts: 34

  Posted: Jun 04, 2004 - 01:50 AM

  Thanks for the suggestions.

  • 
  •  
• markwest
  
  

  • Rank: Team Member
  • Registered: Mar 18, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 6606

  Posted: Jun 04, 2004 - 02:01 AM

  Good luck in your expedition into PHP.... One of the first steps to contribution to the postnuke project aside from the docs and support areas that chestnut covered - which, however, are hugely important would be bug fixing.... Contribure any bug fixes to http://noc.postnuke.…tracker/?group_id=5.
  
  -Mark
  
  --
  Visit My homepage and Zikula themes.

  • 
  •  
• Lobos
  
  

  • Rank: Expert
  • Registered: Dec 02, 2002
  • Last visit: Apr 30, 2010
  • Posts: 1474

  Posted: Jun 05, 2004 - 04:37 PM

  Hi there,
  
  I started out with themes, this helped ease my way into PHP and you can start to make contributions very quickly as well cause it's a lot easier to design a theme than a mod (although MarkWest seems to think otherwise LOL). It's amazing what you learn in the creation of themes; you also from time to time get the yearning to see how things work in the core and modules - this is when you start to dig around and really have fun :)
  
  Regards
  
  --
  -Lobos
  Professional PHP Framework Services: Concept, Development and Deployment

  • 
  •  
•  
•  

Users on-line

• mesteele101

This list is based on users active over the last 60 minutes.