Setting up my own category page is much easier than I thought it would be now that I’ve found the Wordpress functions I need (query_pages and single_cat_title)! Now to look up PHP string concatenation because I seem to have forgotten the syntax.
If you’re doing any sort of custom work, query_pages is a huge help; it lets you filter the posts that Wordpress will display on a page. Here's the reference in the Wordpress Codex.
Found to great sites for PHP help and tutorials. The first one, http://devzone.zend.com/article/627 is for beginners who need to catch up on all the PHP stuff we’ve done like me. And this site http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/php/php.html looks to have everything you’d ever want to know about PHP. Hope it’s useful for some of yall
Thanks a lot! I’ve been trying to find tutorials like these ones.
this probably would have saved a little bit of frustration on my part, but still very helpful even after the assignment
Awesome! This is a great resource! Thanks for posting this, since it will help alot with the changes I am planning for my site.
For those of you getting more into PHP, you might want to check out the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors. Server scripting can be a lot of fun, but if someone finds a hole you’ve left, your server will be in for a world of hurt. There are programs that will scan for these sorts of things, too, but I’m not really sure which ones are good/kept up to date. Suggestions?
Thanks for the link Harrison. I haven’t read it yet, but am going to read it. I’m really trying to get this programming thing down so I can have a better understanding of back end processes. The more I know the better.
Really useful and now I’m looking for any article that’s a “most common errors” for everything we’re doing now. It’s so important to do everything right the first time around while it’s still an easy fix
I like programming, but even small errors can completely mess you up. I once spent 3 hours going over code with another guy before we figured out that one small ordering problem had caused the entire program to misfunction
Harrison M. 11:09 am on April 9, 2010 Permalink
String concatenation is done by placing periods between each string or string variable you want to put together. The more you know!