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Posted by Shawn Wilson on 06/12/11 11:24
I have been an HTML guy for 8 years or so, but only last year started
working with PHP. I dabbled in Perl and then moved to PHP after completing
a couple projects in Perl. I'm thankful I did that, as I'm sure you all
know.
I've got a pretty common working knowlege of PHP and using it with mySQL. I
can do most anything I need to do, but I learn new things by Google'ing or
using PHP.NET and I'd like to learn some better practices and get away from
what I'm sure are newbie practices. I've been learning to acomplish one
specific task at a time, and I'd like a more rounded education on best
practices.
I've only recently started using arrays instead of lots of seperate
variables for example, and I'm sure there are more things (like hashes?)
that would move me more toward a seasoned programmer and away from being a
newbie.
There are hundreds of PHP books out there, and I've ordered a couple, but
I'm looking for suggestions. First, on whether I should touch PHP5 at this
point given the fact that it probably won't be on my client's servers? Or
should I focus on PHP4 for now and then move on to PHP5 at some later date
when I'm ready and the world is more ready?
What I don't want to do is to learn a ton of new ways of doing things with
PHP5 and not be able to use any of it so maybe I've answered my own
question.
Please, any suggetions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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Shawn Wilson
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