have been trying to convert one of my html website to php so that it can have dynamic functions (not sure whether this is the correct word or not as from my understanding, html is static, everything is added/modified manually, but with php, more functions are available, like we can add/removed/filter multiple items based on some common properties among them, such as model/brand/owner, etc, and it can be enhanced when combined with data server, like MySQL or MariaDB). i am still working on it on my test server and maybe i can create an online shop, with products displayed with their price and we can play with it by selecting and adding them to the carts and proceeding to order. but it should needs huge amount of work i guess and not sure when i can get it done, or whether i can even get it down or not.
nowadays, many technologies become more and more friendly to admins, and to common people as well. for example, previously the server (domain servers, exchange servers, data servers) can only be managed by very experienced IT engineers/admins, which sounds very complicated and difficult to common users and junior IT staff. but with the cloud technology becomes available to more and more people, with lower and lower cost, people get to know better how it works and it turns out not that complicated and difficult any more. it’s true to programming as well. some giant technical companies/platform provide low-skill programming tools to the public, non-technical background users, so that they can develop the tools/apps they want even though they don’t have much programming knowledge. this is how it works now. technology comes to every person now and in the future, and if it does not, probably it will die before it gets popular (of course, there will be some that can only managed by experienced IT guys, but most of the normal and daily-used apps/services/software should be more user friendly or customized to meet their specific and respective needs, instead of being created by the vendors and users spending much time and energy learning how it works and how to use them).
technology is of much fun and when multiple technologies are combined, it can be great and powerful! it’s a good experience to get know a new technology and become more familiar, especially to beginners like myself.
carry on guys! work on it and never give up if this is what you like. it will pay off some day!