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Posted by ng on 11/21/28 11:24
This is a link I found by a very good PHP author - this one is on
Version 4, and he also wrote one on Version 5. I would start with this
one, considering it's free, and more relevant right now than V5.
Tom
http://apress.com/free/content/ProgrammersIntroductionToPHP4.pdf
Shawn Wilson wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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?
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>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.
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>Please, any suggetions would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance!
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>Shawn Wilson
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