Learning PHP

[CribbsStyle]

Whats the best tool to write PHP Code? Also whats the best resource to
learn PHP?

Thanks

Dennis

[David T. Ashley]

Re: Learning PHP

"CribbsStyl e" <cribbsstyle@gm ail.comwrote in message
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Whats the best tool to write PHP Code? Also whats the best resource to
learn PHP?

I'm happy with the book "Beginning PHP4", and I'm sure you can locate it
cheaply on www.half.com.

I do my programming on a Linux box using Emacs and Putty, but I'm sure there
are more advanced environments.

"Best" depends on whether you are trying to learn other skills concurrently.
If you are working on a Windows box and want to learn Linux, it could be as
simple as an old PC and an Ethernet crossover cable ...

[lvmaintbch@cox.net]

Re: Learning PHP

I'm on a windows box and have the book by 'SAMS' Teach yourself php in 24
hours and have found the editor 'hapedit' most useful.

Barrie

[Peter Fox]

Re: Learning PHP

Following on from CribbsStyle's message. . .

>Whats the best tool to write PHP Code? Also whats the best resource to
>learn PHP?
>
>Thanks
>
>Dennis
>

* The best editor is the one you get on with best.
* The efficient organising of code, test routines etc is /down to you/
* The efficient structuring and documentation of code /down to you/
* Don't rely on a single PHP book. Simply, there are two PHP
programming paradigms :
1 Snippets of PHP inside HTML
2 PHP programs generating full pages
* Use PHP 5 not 4 (4 works but 5 is more OO-ish)
* By the time you've done your first project you've got the same amount
of exploration still to do to become reasonably good. Don't think that
doing something is the same as doing it well. So you need to keep on
trying things, reading articles, understanding security, considering
when to use various libraries and seeing if any of the various
frameworks are suitable.


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[Osiris]

Re: Learning PHP

On 10 Nov 2006 18:09:12 -0800, "CribbsStyl e" <cribbsstyle@gm ail.com>
wrote:

>Whats the best tool to write PHP Code? Also whats the best resource to
>learn PHP?
>
>Thanks
>
>Dennis

The fatty stuff between your ears.
It looks like intestines, and you wouldn't feed it to your dog, but is
different.
No substitute for brains.
The rest is peanuts.

[Krustov]

Re: Learning PHP

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<CribbsStyle>
<10 Nov 2006 18:09:12 -0800>
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Whats the best tool to write PHP Code?

Any text editor that highlights php code from other text .

Also whats the best resource to learn PHP?

Buy a couple of php beginners books and use as a cross reference when
learning a new command as each author will explain things differently .


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[David T. Ashley]

Re: Learning PHP

"CribbsStyl e" <cribbsstyle@gm ail.comwrote in message
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Whats the best tool to write PHP Code? Also whats the best resource to
learn PHP?

Also, don't forget about the site www.php.net (if you haven't encountered it
already). That is where I look for function references and so on.

[Krustov]

Re: Learning PHP

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<David T. Ashley>
<Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:51:41 -0500>
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Whats the best tool to write PHP Code? Also whats the best resource to
learn PHP?

>
Also, don't forget about the site www.php.net (if you haven't encountered it
already). That is where I look for function references and so on.
>

For a php newbie www.php.net is pretty much useless as its little more
than a geeky reference manual .

Only when a php newbie gets used to the usual type of php syntax does it
start to become something that can be understood .

Yeah sure i use it all the time myself these days - but when i first
started learning php it was as useful as a chocolate teapot .


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