Coding as art

I’ve been working for the last eighteen years week on a freelance project. My biggest challenge was getting a “forgot your password?” script to work.

I’m getting better with the PHP language and the MySQL queries. It’s all starting to make sense. My trouble is seeing the whole process for the bits and pieces it’s comprised of.

Or, in more layman’s terms: drawing with shapes.

Have you ever taken a “how to draw” tutorial? They all tell you to start by drawing the shapes that you see in what you’re trying to draw. For example, I look at a table in a restaurant and I see bread and steak and wine glasses. Someone who’s really good at drawing looks at that same table and sees spheres and circles and squares and lines.

I can’t draw.

With regards to my PHP password script, what does it take to have a user reset their password? It’s clicking a link and putting in your email address to make sure that you have an account with the site in the first place. It’s having a temporary password generated, stored in another database and sent to the input email address. It’s another web page that lets you enter that username and temporary password, then if those two are validated, takes you to yet another process that FINALLY lets you modify your original user info.

Sorry, PHP makes me ramble.

Long story short, I’m teaching myself how to draw with code. What this’ll actually DO for me is unknown, but still.