PHP Student Notes Summary

A small plain PHP practice project built to strengthen core PHP fundamentals such as variables, arrays, associative arrays, loops, functions, conditional logic, and browser output.

Goal

This project builds a simple multi-page PHP app that:

• shows all student notes
• filters open notes
• shows a status summary

Purpose

This project was built to practice:

• variables
• arrays
• associative arrays
• loops
• functions
• basic conditional logic
• built-in PHP functions such as count()
• PHP syntax differences from JavaScript
• rendering PHP output in the browser
• separating data, logic, and page output into different files

Features

• View all student notes on one page
• View only open student notes on a filtered page
• View a status summary showing:
  • total notes
  • open notes
  • closed notes
• Use reusable helper functions for filtering and counting
• Navigate between pages with simple links

Main Files

• data.php - stores the student notes array
• functions.php - stores reusable helper functions
• index.php - shows all notes
• open-notes.php - shows only open notes
• status-summary.php - shows total, open, and closed note counts

Project Structure

php-student-notes-summary/
├── app/
│   ├── data.php
│   ├── functions.php
│   ├── index.php
│   ├── open-notes.php
│   └── status-summary.php
├── notes/
│   ├── 01-project-overview.md
│   ├── 02-setup-log.md
│   └── 03-what-i-learned.md
├── screenshots/
├── .gitignore
└── README.md

How It Works

• data.php stores the student note data in an array
• functions.php contains helper functions for:
  • getting open notes
  • counting open notes
  • counting closed notes
• index.php loops through all notes and displays them
• open-notes.php uses a helper function to display only open notes
• status-summary.php uses helper functions to display note counts

How to Run

Run the project locally with PHP or Apache.

Example using PHP's built-in server:

php -S localhost:8000

Then open:

• http://localhost:8000/app/index.php
• http://localhost:8000/app/open-notes.php
• http://localhost:8000/app/status-summary.php

Screenshots

All Notes Page

Open Notes Page

Status Summary Page

Status

Basic project build complete.

Current version includes:

• working all notes page
• working open notes filter page
• working status summary page
• reusable helper functions
• simple navigation links between pages