Styling the layouts proved to be very straight forward, originally when planning the post sequences I envisioned this to be a substantial portion of the work but in reality I managed to style all pages within a couple of pages with one css file and some very minor changes to the html element within the output functions to provide adequate identifiers for css.
The image below shows the final index.php page which displays the Create and Login forms
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| main login/registration page |
The image below shows the members.php page which has improved greatly from that shown in the previous posts. In this final version one can easily differentiate between files and folders as now a clear icon is displayed next to each. The Delete link has also been replaced with the delete icon.
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| members area page |
I must say that I enjoyed working on this project greatly, I'm also pleased to now have a deeper understanding of a language that is widely used all over the internet. One will come across mixed reviews when reading about php, people seem to either love it or hate it, there's no in between. Most reasons why people dislike php are unfounded, the most common mentioned reason is that php is not statically typed. This might have been an issue a decade ago but with today's auto-complete features in our IDEs I can't remember when I last typed a full variable or function name. Another commonly mentioned issue is that php code is untidy. In my opinion this has very little to do with the language and more to do with bad practice. I think that php has achieved this outstanding popularity because it's a stable and light weight, does not require cutting edge hardware to run satisfactorily. I'm looking forward to my next project with php.
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