Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (96 mails)

[Derek Fountain <derekfountain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Exactly. I just found an excellent book "Build Your Own Database Driven
> Website Using PHP & MySQL" by Kevin Yank. They just released second
> edition. The first 4 chapters are free for downloading. The URL is
> http://sitepoint.com. I was using O'Reilly's MySQL book and the PHP
> Bible, but this book actually got me started. For me, PHP itself was
> easy because it is so much like C.

Yes, I've decided this is a good opportunity for me to learn a new language. I  
haven't done that for a few years now. :o) PHP is clearly a useful skill to  
know these days.

I have the book "Core PHP Programming" which seems to contain far too much  
waffle. The variables section, for instance, starts off buy describing that a  
variable "is a value held somewhere in the computer's RAM", etc.

So I gave up on that and am now wading through the online PHP manual, which is  
very good. The language is quite simple compared to peers like Perl, and  
doesn't seem to have any unique features to learn (except the === operator  
which I've not seen before).

I've not produced anything with it yet, but I'm confident it's the right  
choice for what I need.

-- 
"...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE 
...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, 
they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003