Pony Island/ PHP help.

[wickedrodent]

Im basically going to copy my questions from the introduction forum to here.

I found this site by searching google for php coding help. Im interested in making my own VP site and would love some help. I know html and a little java.. and hope to learn php too. So far, it hasn't been so kind to me. I read a tutorial that says I need to download php and mysql. I tried doing both, and its being.. weird.. I don't know exactly whats supposed to happen once I do, but something isn't right..

I am a member of one VP site at the moment.. www.ponyisland.net If anyone know how they make their breeding system work, I would love to know. I wonder if they have to color each of the ponies before hand, or if there is some program that does it for them... Its very interesting/complex in my mind.. Id also love to know how they do a lot of their other things (get the generator to make ponies by pushing in random colors) there has to be some type of code to that, right?

Oh, I forgot to mention.. Im downloading wamp5 right now. Is that good? lol, I saw somewhere that it takes the place of downloading the others.. Is that correct?

[Sar]

I wouldn't know, sorry.

[Tigress]

WAMP5 will install most all of the necessary tools for you to be able to do what they do on PonyIsland. However it does require some fairly advanced knowledge of PHP. They most likely use PHP's gdlib, its image library, to modify the colours through a script and so on. You can look up the functions on PHP.net's documentation.

[wickedrodent]

Oh, thank you! =)