Not sure where to start

Beginners - Learning PHP
#1

Hi all, I have an idea for a system that could help the education charity that I work for but I’m not sure where to start - any pointers would be great.

The system I would like to develop is as follows:

  • Learner requires a profile login.

  • Tutor requires a login.

  • Tutor can add a learner with their start date and end date inputted and choice of course.

  • Tutor needs to edit a grid of 30 text boxes - and enter a number between 1 and 3. 3 would mean that element is completed.

  • The system would work out progress (and also how far through a course they are in regards to time).

  • Learner can login and view progress at any time.

As long as I have ideas about how I can build the bones of the system, I can hopefully polish it up with graphs etc.

A long shot but any help is massively appreciated.

Thanks

S.

#2

Do you have any development experience? If so we need to know how much so we can point you to the next step.

If not; you have plenty to learn before you start on something like this. Codeacademy has a PHP course that will probably get you a long way, and you’ll need some HTML and JS experience to build the front end.

A quicker way to get where you want might be to play around with google sheets to build a spreadsheet that will do the work. It won’t be perfect but it might be enough to get you started. Once you have a solid idea of what you want the system to do, you could then look at paying someone to do the work for you.

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#3

“Learner requires a profile login.”

  • Whats the difference between a login and a ‘profile login’?

“Tutor requires a login.”

  • Whats the difference between a ‘learner’ login and a ‘tutor’ login?

“Tutor needs to edit a grid of 30 text boxes - and enter a number between 1 and 3. 3 would mean that element is completed”

  • Seems like a normal ‘form submission’ behavior here to me…

Start there… outline your needs… the differences… and then start building as such.

After the fact you can you work on the last 2 open items…

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#4

You would have single login system (your statement implies two different ones.) Your login system authenticates who the logged in user is, by storing only their user id in a session variable. You would then query on each page request to get any other user related data, such as the user’s display name, user permissions, learners picked/assigned to a tutor, course progress for a learner, …

You would also need a role based user permission system, that controls what a logged in user can do and see on any page. You would need roles for - administrators, tutors, learners, and guests/non-assigned users. The installation script would allow for the creation of a master administrator, who can then assign/remove administrator and tutor roles to/from other registered users.

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#5

https://moodle.org/

Why roll your own when something exists that is meant for this? Do you have a need that isn’t met by an open source LMS?

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