Take a look at my website refresh I am working on:
www.scalesimages.com
It is almost entirely done in PHP (with just a touch of javascript where I
need the size of the user's browser window).
All of the images are dynamically resized and the copyright is automatically
added if the image is over 200 pixels. In particular, once it loads, resize
the window. All the images and buttons will automatically resize to fit the
new window.
All of the menu buttons are randomize (click the Images link).
Most importantly, the site dynamically creates itself. All I have to do is
add a new image to the appropriate directory, and the site updates itself to
include the image. If I want a new menu item, I just create the
appropriately named directory, add the images, and the site updates itself.
The latest feature I added was 'auto-caching', where the site caches the
image with the copyright and shadow, so the next time that image is
requested in that size, it can just load it instead of dynamically resizing
it and adding the shadow.
I like PHP.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dacey" <adacey@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 6:39 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT Web Design
>
> On 8/1/05, Jeff Keller <jeff-keller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> PHP seems to be commonly used but not as widely as the above pair. Are
>> there
>> any obvious reasons to prefer this choice or the above?
>
> PHP doesn't do style so it won't replace CSS for you. It's a
> programming language particularly designed for web usage. It's
> designed to be embedded with html code (you may be more familiar with
> ASP which works in a similar way) and to generate html code (although
> you can have it output other text so you could dynamically generate a
> style sheet for instance).
>
> PHP is processed server-side so there's no compatibility issues with
> browsers, just need a web host that will support it. Personally, I
> like a mix of php for my programming and css for the style and I tend
> not to use javascript. I tend to prefer keeping my scripting
> server-side for simplicity and compatibility with browsers but you
> don't get the control over the browser like you can get with
> javascript.
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