Posted by Adam on 06/08/05 03:02

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:58:58 GMT, Kalogiannis Vassilis wrote:

>> Personally, I like "PHP 5 / MySQL Programming for the Absolute Beginner" by
>> Andy Harris, published by Thompson

That will do nicely <g>. However - I tend to keep one browser window
pointed at the manual at http://www.php.net (you'll need to navigate
to your local language version/location).

When looking up a particular function, check on the users' comments
below the definition - they often have useful "gotchas" or code
snippets.

>I just bought this particular book. It seems ok for me, we will see how
>it goes. Any suggestion on a good PHP text editor for a beginner since
>Dreamweaver (although a great tool) it does confuses me when it comes to
>PHP.

There are freeware PHP editors around - and some relatively cheap
shareware ones. At this stage, I wouldn't bother with ones that do
debugging, as that may confuse you more than it helps. Useful for
*later* <g>.

As you already have Dreamweaver (which version?) you may as well stick
to it - providing you stick to code views. The inbuilt site & file
management functions of DW are actually pretty good.

Adam.

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