Forest Lytton

More training or validation, or learning in particular, would have been useful. Yes, I completed the RESTFUL API course on LinkedIn Learning, but I did not, in the end, realise that REST and RESTFUL were 2 different things. Reviewing Laracasts Intro to PHP, Chapter 32, handling multiple requests chapter and Jeffrey Way mentioned the word restful in passing so I looked it up to refresh. Turns out I was missing the point.

Having implemented the ability to add or edit a blog post, display a tag cloud with counts, and posts by month, I was on the verge of improving the filtering again, but I deserted my project 18 months ago when I my work days got too busy. So this time around, I am going back to basics and understanding things in baby steps - getting more familiar with syntax and alternative syntax (I had found that confusing and hard to remember with all the changes to quotes and such). I am also starting my learning with hard-coded arrays and tags and practice with variables. I am working through making dynamic links in oder to apply css dynamically based on current page. This was really my impetus for learning php in the first place, that coupled with the desire to create a CMS from scratch rather than use a commercially built product like WP, Blogger, or Joomla. The best thing about having several weeks in a row to spend an hour or two is I am beginning to think in coding logic finally, and this week started to be able to make the leap from the phased lesson to the full-strength php I had implemented with strong support from a practiced coder.

I found a great walk-through of creating a simple PHP blog, explaining what each variable does so I can see it and refer back to it. It is a nice follow-up to my initial walk through within the sandbox. This is a test to see if I get a confirmation after submitting

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