After ClassComp, I started work on upgrading the system. I wanted logins and more functionality for the user. I also wanted to be able to use it myself, so why not adapt it to college? The basic idea was you put in where you went to high school and where you are going to college, and it shows you where other kids from your high school are going and where other kids going to your college are from.

This portfolio needed to be easily updated, as I didn’t feel like writing HTML every single time I wanted to add something to it. A combination of flat file php databasing and some solid output code results in the product you’re reading right now...

I knew one of the things I was going to need to learn for larger scale web development was databasing. I’ve been dodging it for a while by using flat files, but there are certain things you just can’t do with text. I needed a project that would be able to utilize what a real database can offer. It struck me to make a program that allowed people to find out who was in their classes, a perfect use of databasing. Now only to teach myself MySQL/PHP...
