1st of all hello to everybody. See I am a completely novice to php..Yeah I am good at Photoshop and illustrator . See friends I now want to make my own php site . I have html template also. But I don't know how to make a php site. What should be the configuration of my public_html directory .......... What scripts I have to import to install a admin panel so that I add every thing through it. ( as in wordpress blogs ). Do I have to install PHP 5.2.5 + Apache + Mysql on my personal pc also from where I shall edit site in future.. ( May be most of you laugh but I really have no idea guys. ) Yeah I have some PHP Scripts but I really don't know what should be the configuration in my server directory..( whose permissions I shall change and how to use my html template ). Please help :idea: Friends.. I need to know urgently !!!!!!!!!
Well if you don't need to generate anything dynamically or you don't need to pull anything from a database there is no need to use php. The html template will do just fine. I suggest you get familiar with this site http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp They have a lot of good tutorials and such. You're never going to be able to code php from asking on a forum though. Read tutorials and practice and you will learn php. The forums are a good place for when you get stuck on a certain problem but we can't teach you php on here.
Mr. bigrollerdave I want php site.....Server did supports php's latest version..but I am unsure of public_html directory's files what should be there ...along with html template...and how I do what I explained above... Please help...
Like he said - we cannot not teach you PHP. Just because the server supports it - that doesn't mean you have to use it. Anything in public_html will show up under your root directory of your domain. So if your domain is mysite.com, the file test.htm will be mysite.com/test.htm Now if thats not what you're asking, I'll assume you're asking what you need to put there to have "a PHP site." Just because your friends have sites written in PHP doesn't mean you need one - especially because you have no idea what PHP does or is capable of. You need to read tutorials on PHP and take the time to learn. Do some research and find out what is already on your server. Good chance PHP and MySQL are already installed so all you would need to do is read a good Wordpress tutorial to get that up and running. But if you do that, your HTML template is no good, you would have to rewrite it for Wordpress - a feat that requires some PHP knowledge. If you want a PHP site to impress your friends but have no need for it or any willingness to go try and teach yourself the very basics of PHP - then there is nothing we can do to help you.
It sounds like the best bet for you is to just set up an account at Wordpress.org. Once you've set up an account, they'll give you a subdomain on their server where you can create a site with Wordpress pages, blog entries and all the other Wordpress coolness. Plus, it's free.
seoyo, I think you mean wordpress.com. Wordpress.org is the dev site for the wordpress package and is where you'd go to download wordpress.