PHP Camp -- Day 4

Today's main task was to complete the pages for adding new games and reviews, and to hook them up to the database. We did that and more.

Here's today's agenda:

• First we reviewed what was left to do in the project.
• I taught them about creating forms, which are pages that let you enter information. The HTML is fairly easy, but the PHP to support them is a bit trickier. See the cheat-sheet.
• I led them through the creation of their forms in a multi-step process:
  • Create the display part of the forms
  • Add PHP to read the entered values
  • Add PHP to preserve the entered values in the form
  • Add PHP check whether all values have been entered
  • Display a warning message if they haven't
  • Add information to the database if all values are ok
• Alex and Austin played with the formatting on the home page
• We modified the rating to display an average from all reviews
• Delicious cookies from the Sheltons were the treat of the day

Friday we'll be working on making everything nice and consistent.

Check it out!