[zoic]

I have a website (http://www.solartek.org) and I'm planning on having a lot of tutorials on it mostly for PHP. But I was wondering, what kind of PHP Tutorials would you actually read and find useful?

[bizzar528]

For a website posting tutorials, I would start small. For example, look at some of the questions posted on this site and see if you can find a function that would help someone and write up about that.

For example, fread (opening and writing to files), file manipulation, FORMS... every PHP tutorial site should have a php forms section. I get a lot of questions about that. GD is a hard topic to find about.

I would write up stuff about php with regards to website integration. Taking HTML and making it PHP friendly, navigation tips, including files.

[zoic]

Thanks for the great reply, appreciate it a lot. Keep them coming!

[steveo]

Yes, like bizzar said. Start Small.

Make your tuts very accurate and descriptive, however don't make the tutorials boring and long. Add some humor or something to keep browsers entertained if you have to use long and boring text.

Have, simple includes, forms with PHP, shoutboxes (not ideal but it's a great way to learn how to INPUT values into a database etc), news system (simple) and others.

After a little while, you can add parts onto the shoutbow and news. For example, how to change smilies faces to images, and links and others.

[Wuiqed]

For a tutorial site I think there's two ways to go:

1. Standard tutorials that are necessary to learn to be a good coder, like how to echo a string, working with arrays etc
2. Odd tutorials teaching "cool" stuff, like checking if a server is online (great for gaming servers)

[mousegu]

I agree that all tutorials need some humor in them, to take out the monotony.
Before I was good (if you could call me good?? hehe) at programming, i searched all over for a tutorial on how to make a CMS or WYSIWYG editor. Those would be cool tutorials for people.

[zoic]

Thanks again for the tips people. They've given me quite a few more ideas for tutorials to include!

[blaw]

Hello,

I agree with others that you should start small and grow gradually, and also you should teach something that is not overdone elsewhere.

In addition, while example codes are must-have, I would say a great tute site is where you can learn how to approach your problem, and not where you can get a copy-and-paste answer that doesn't teach you anything.

Finally, as the number of topics grows, you should consider implementing usable navigation/search structures/features so that visitors would not get lost in your tutes before they even read the articles. Sounds "of course" enough, but I have seldom seen a tute site with useful navigations.

Good luck with your project!

[tiaos]

By the way, i'm newbee in PHP. Any hints about code flow, call to forms, loading forms, etc, will bi appreciated.
TIA