After getting access to some of the past drafts of the weather site this morning, I started designing my own version of the site (essentially the same as what is in place right now) to get more comfortable with PHP. Once the afternoon rolled around, we got access to all of the data for 2010 which Katherine put into a mySQL database on the second lab machine. I spent a good chunk of the rest of the afternoon wrestling with different settings to try and make my code, running over on the other lab machine, be able to access that database, but I was not able to do so. I wrote a sample PHP script on the hosting machine just to check that the database worked, and it ran successfully. I think there is something wrong with how I am trying to connect over the local network or there is some setting on the server that is preventing me from accessing it. That will be tomorrow’s project, I got too frustrated and went back to my PHP work. On the docket for tomorrow is getting that mySql issue fixed and investigating ways to tell time and issues that we are going to have with daylight savings and the like (that was for today, but I got sidetracked by all the mySql stuff).
-Will