On May 12, 4:08 pm, sid <kingsiddha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am designing a website for our college students to buy and sell
> things on this site. It is supposed to be a non commercial website.
>
> I want to write the code in php as my college website also uses php. I
> am very new to php but am good at programming languages such as c, c+
> +,pascal, etc. Also I know html.
>
> I am learning php from the book "Programming PHP" by Rasmus Lerdorf
> and Kevin Tatroe. Please tell whether this book is the best place to
> start learning, although I have read 2 or 3 chapters and am able to
> understand it well.
> I also have another book called "Beginning PHP5, Apache, MuSQL Web
> development". It is a WROX book. Please tell which one would be
> better.
>

Read them both - why do you think you have to choose?

More importantly write some code - the milestone you've set yourself
is quite a big one - try something simpler.

Don't attempt to process payments until you really know what you're
doing.

> Also, I would like to know some kind of mechanism that would stop
> students to type in abusive or irrelevent content on the website while
> they enter the description of what they want to sell.
>

Tricky - I'd point out how to avoid this but tis starting to sound
like 'Can you do my homework for me'. Look for ways to make the users
accountable - you'll never be able to automatically filter all abuse -
e.g. 'Prof. Xyz mates with dead sheep' or 'Buy (misspelt drug name) at
www.drugs-r-us.com' is going to be pretty hard to spot.

C.