Giving myself projects

Over the next 6 weeks i’m going to have alot of free time to myself and I thought I’d use that time to give myself some projects to put my PHP skills to test. I’ve made some small applications in the past such as multi image uploaders, but I want to create a full scale website from ground up.

The hard part is thinking of what to make, it could be something that’s already done. Afterall, this is just to teach myself new things and obviously gain more experience with PHP coding.

I’ve drafted up a few ideas such as a video hosting website for a certain game, like LittleBigPlanet where users can post videos of levels they make. I’m not expecting something big to happen, it is purely a test as I haven’t really had the opportunity to create any projects for myself in the past because of time constraints.

I’ve thought about creating a Content Management System and implementing the small applications i’ve written, the multi image uploader would be fantastic for a site with galleries. Anyway, we’ll see.

So why do I have spare time in the next 6 weeks? My girlfriend goes to Australia (tonight) as she has family over there and is spending Xmas with them.

Over the next few days I’m going to start the projects and I’ll post here as to where I’m up to.