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need idea for a dynamic website

 
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well i want to learn php now. but i cant think of an idea for anything interesting. to learn servlets and a little jsp i did an online magic shop(like online store but no credit card just a database).but i find myself in a dilemma of not having any interesting ideas. and no employer to provide what they want.
 
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Polls or voting is usually the easiest place to start.
When I was messing around with Tomcat for the first time I made an app for maintaining scores for our Foosball table.
 
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good suggestion
 
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i could do a tarot card thing like miss cleo. but i would have to buy/checkout? the book. just like my servlet site. i had to spend $20 on a book to get info i needed.
 
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a fan site? nah i dont think so. hmm what then? maybe something else D&D related like my magic shop.
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I don't know if you are a sports fan, but with basketball season comming up, you could generate a fantasy basketball site and invite your friends and coleagues to join. You could even have them login and select their players and store that info in a DB and then you could be in charge of updating the scoring and displaying it for them to view.

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Just for the record, I don't believe in basketball.
 
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actually a fan site might not be a bad idea. although it seems more static than dynamic i just have to make a better fan site
any other ideas welcome though
 
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hmm i hate basketball or that would be a good idea
 
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im into golf and i even thought about a gof site but that is too boring and there are better ones already
 
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hmm i could almost get into doing a buffy fan site
 
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I have considered learning PHP before but not really tried to learn it. Now I need to get to know it for some sorta CRM thing that'll be based off open source stuff (Apache, PHP, MySQL). Perhaps you could design a new message board system for JavaRanch. The one here is great and all, but commercial products limit you more than stuff you've made locally. I suppose that's a bit of a large project. Ah, well. I'll try to think of something else.
 
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actually I don't believe in golf either.
Don't want to be seen as trolling but for some reason basketball and golf are two sports I could never stand.
Back to the suggestions now
The "team scores" is an interesting exercise since it involves collection of data and peresntation of table of standings etc.
 
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Hi Randall
I think your right if youre going to do a project do something your interested in.
Basically behind all dynamic sites the idea is getting info from A (the backend) to B (front end) youve done this with servlets and jsp the principal won't change with php.
If youre into golf you may want to check this idea they had in NZ
http://www.golf.co.nz/search.cfm
Its done through Coldfusion but the general idea is the same as above:
players cards are entered into the db and then can be viewed via the web (still the devil is in the detail...) - it caused a bit of a stir back home as bosses could check up on their employees who said they were sick that day and were actually on the course - all manner of privacy issues etc (not much happens in NZ...)
all the best - Jim
 
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Well if you don't want to check out a tarot book, why not make a card game site. You must know the rules of some card games.
 
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jim,
yeah that is a pretty cool site. now im wondering how they gathered all that info though.
angela,
yeah games are good. quizes are popular now too. maybe something with real practical use is better though. maybe something educational. geography might be fun. a world map where you can click on a country.....hmmm could probly do that all in html though...but i could have a quiz....
actually a game or quiz could be done without server side code...
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How about a blog?
 
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what is a blog?
 
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Blog is short for weblog. Some people use them simply as a means to handle news headlines on their sites, many people use them as a kind of web journal or web diary, some use as a collaborative ongoing story... really there are many uses I guess.
See these links for some examples:
  • http://www.blogger.com/
  • http://www.weblogs.com/
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    Hi Randell, i can suggest u four ideas to implement :
    (1) A voting poll --- like who is the greates batsman?(Sachin ofcourse)
    (2) A message board (not as like as javaranch, simply impossible
    (3) A chat software thru applet/servlet communication
    (4) An online exam simulation software ---- like on SCJP or SCWCD....
    R u working on a site? Free hosting or by money? I m thnking to implement a few of the above list in www.mycgiserver.com . Can get some tips from u, right?

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    thanks jason and ashik
    I have an apache/tomcat/php server on my home PC. I use a free dynamic dns redirection server called yi
    last I heard they werent accepting new users though.
    their site is http://www.yi.org
    I run my servlet site(sometimes) on it
    I want to add a php site too
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    You could join an existing open source project:
    http://www.jivesoftware.com/
     
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    My honest opinion would be for you to try and build a webservice app using PHP .
    The reason being , if you already aware of servlets and jsp + j2ee , and can get one part of the fan site ( if that is what u intend to do ) using that tech , then build another portion of the site using PHP + XML rpc that way you will be able to demonstrate integration of 2 sites from within one ( a preprocessing joke )
    Useful link if you do decide : http://php.weblogs.com/xml-rpc
    2. Option 2 yes you can start a blog , and try and work on usage of PHP within a blog ( which i intend to soon ...)
    3. Start with a blog and then get involved with http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/ - Meerkat
    If interested in a blog's & the rest ...i am in the verge of building option 1 on my dummy blog site , that should give you some ideas as well .
    Again it all depends on how much time you can spend on each of these ...i find it next to impossible ,but keep trying ..
    Good luck

    Originally posted by Randall Twede:
    well i want to learn php now. but i cant think of an idea for anything interesting. to learn servlets and a little jsp i did an online magic shop(like online store but no credit card just a database).but i find myself in a dilemma of not having any interesting ideas. and no employer to provide what they want.



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    seymour,
    im not sure i see the point of integrating. it seems to me you can do anything with servlets that you can do with php. currently my site has a login then another page then the main page which has a image link to the main servlet app. i plan to just use a different link(probably an image also) from the same page to the php app(whatever it turns out to be). except that page is served by tomcat so that might be a problem. i might have to reconfigure apache so that it will serve all static pages. i think the best way to learn is by doing. i havent checked out the links to learn about blogs yet but i will have time over the 4 day weekend.
     
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    I have an unusual sort of idea. I just saw Harry Potter, so I was paying attention to some 'behind the scenes' sorta thing on the news that said she evolved her own virtual harry potter universe for years. This reminded me of Tolken, William Blake, the Romans, all those RPGs, and gave me an idea for a program/site.
    You could write a site for user-made myths. The best way to describe it is to, well, describe it. A user could create a new mythical universe project, of which he is a moderator. It would be kinda like a content managment system where people could submit new characters and stories for moderation/approval. The characters and stories would all be cross referenced when they are submitted, so you've got an endless circle of links. The universe home page could show the most popular or most recent stories. It should also be possible to add modifications to characters and stories later (so it turns out he was really Luke's father? Arg! That changes everything!).
    I think it's a cool idea at least.
     
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    Nice idea David! But it will take a lot time and energy and should be developed by a team i think, instead by an individual ....
    Waiting for such a site.....
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