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University Assignment due tomorrow, new to PHP, NEED HELP BAD!


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Hiya, ok I have really big problems! I'm a student studying Internet Technology in the UK, and I have an assignment due tomorrow. I've never used PHP but as part of the assignment I have to:
a) create a file lorem.txt and copy some lines of text into it, then create a webpage containing embedded PHP to open the file lorem.txt and write the text to a paragraph in the webpage
b)create a multi column webpage and populate it with lorem ipsum text, create two distinct stylesheets, add php code so that index.php?style=1 displays the page using stylesheet 1 and index.php?style=2 displays the page using stylesheet 2

Also, I've tried using XAMPP as recommended by my lecturer but my PC can't connect to the local host. How do I get it to work as I've never used XAMPP before either.

Quick help would be greatly appreciated! lol
Thanks!
things just don't add up
you're an Internet Technology major..your in a class of some sort
it's nearing the end of the semester, unless it's a different schedule in UK if it is, I'm sorry for the assumption
never used PHP ever

and the professor assigns a PHP project to you, knowing you haven't a clue about it?
---------are you doing someone's homework or something

you should ask the teacher if he/she wants you to disect a hydrogen atom too, while doing quantum physics...blindfolded
yeh this seems pretty weird and suss. but... being a uni student shouldn't you have completed this ages ago. I'm still in high school and i seem to be doing better but eh... your marks...

alls i can say to you is "Search good for tutorials!"
Zanus, I was away for the 1 PHP lecture we had, and the PHP work I've been asked to do is only a very small part of the whole assignment. My uni is very good at assuming that people have done this before, and I started my course not knowing anything, not even how to design a website. I have used tutorials but I am having trouble understanding them. Sorry I am not up to you're expertise! I've just received some really great help and am now understanding what the code is saying a bit better.
Excellent! one more post and your a regular.  Don't sweat it, I go to a Pretty well known University and I can tell you that most the people that were in the class where we were taught PHP could not build a guestbook to save their life but still passed the class.  It comes down to the fact that you really know how this stuff works overnight and you have to continue to use it or you loose it.  People who can do things fairly easily now forget what it was like to learn this stuff.

-John
Well just to make it clear, I wasn't poking at your 'lack of expertise' or anything.

I was just baffled about the school assigning something to you that you don't have experience with.
I'll never poke fun at someone just because they don't know PHP or else I wouldn't be here helping people.

but good luck on your assignment and you know if you run into problems you come here.
Just don't give such titles as HELP, URGENT, "this post is more important than whatever else you're about to read"
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