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I'd go so far as to say it's impossible to learn it everything about the LAMP stack - the four elements involved are vast and complex, not to mention you'll also need to learn HTML, CSS, JS, and design if you're not contracting the front-end work to someone else. But fortunately, you don't need to. Pay for a hosting account with a reliable and reputable company. That takes care of the Linux, MySQL installation and most of the Apache stuff. You'll need to learn some Apache configuration things if you're using fancy URLs, security or caching but that's it. You can be up to speed in a few days with a good book. The PHP side and the SQL side (DBA side really) are more tricky. It depends on you. If you're a tinkerer, just read tutorials and start changing the source in open projects. Learn by doing. If you're a reader, buy two O'Reilly books - one about PHP and a PHP cookbook. If you need hand-holding, get on Treehouse or Khan's Academy. Whatever route you choose though, try to find a mentor - having someone you can email occasionally with those "WTF have I done? This should be working!" questions is so, so useful. You'll learn much faster. Philosophically though, and only in my opinion, learning LAMP in order to complete a single project is a waste of your time. Pay a contractor. The project will succeed if you spend time on it in useful ways - learning the tech basics is not a good use of that time. And you might not like it, or be competent at it, or be capable of coding it if it's especially complicated - I've been a developer for 15 years and I still run away from some particularly difficult coding jobs. As a complete amateur you aren't in a position to know what you're getting in to - someone with experience would be able to evaluate the proposition, and see the potential pitfalls, far better than you. |
Take a CSV file containing logs and crawl through it. Log snippets should be linked to specific links (in this case, solutions). Generate an output (another csv with the links added).