Newbies

[nighthawk]

I started with PHP but how can I practice it on my PC. Do I need some kind of server emulator? What is EQEmu?

[lalalogic]

I'm a newbie too and I started with XAMPP. It's easy to install and it contains everything you need to get started http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

[nighthawk]

Xampp is very good.

I downloaded phpbb, and i wanted to install it to xampp but I need to make database first.
What is the easiest way to make SQL database? Is it something simple or I have to learn a lot of things?

[webmaster]

go to localhost/phpmyadmin and make a new database there, it's very simple (if you ahve xampp installed)

[nighthawk]

already done, thanks

maybe soon I will have my own forum. It is really nice to be forum administrator. You can control everything

[nighthawk]

I use while loop to generate string of numbers, but i don't know how to make it echoes numbers like this:

001
002
003
004...
015...
999.

[webmaster]

Without the leading zeros:

[php]<?php
for($i = 1; $i<1000; $i++) {
echo $i;
}
?>[/php]

[grommit]

with this code you even get the leading zero's

[php]
<?php
for ( $i = 1; $i<1000; $i++){
echo sprintf("%03d",$i);
}
?>[/php]

[nighthawk]

What is the purpose of .sql files? Are they suppose to create mysql database on remote server?