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Posted by phill.luckhurst@googlemail.com on 11/20/07 19:43
On 20 Nov, 12:38, BoneIdol <leon...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 19, 11:33 pm, "phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com"
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> <phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 19, 5:17 pm, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
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> > > phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > > > Is there a good online resource for a beginner who wishes to learn PHP?
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> > > What (if any) programming languages do you already know? It makes a big
> > > difference.
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> > > Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> > > [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
> > > [OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 13 days, 14 min.]
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> > > USD/EUR Exchange Rate Graph
> > > http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/11/18/usd-eur/
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> > I've been doing little programming since I was 7 when I had a ZX81.
> > Back then it was a very poor basic but I soon started assembly and
> > pascal. From pascal I moved onto C and 68000 on the Amiga. At college
> > I did a lot more with C++ and then dabbled with HTML. I never really
> > dedicated enough time to any of them but now I have a lot of spare
> > time so really should put the effort in.
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> I would really recommend you buy a book then, if you've been
> programming before. They are usually much better written than the crap
> you get on the internet. If you are determined to use the internet to
> learn, I'd recommend:
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> http://www.w3schools.com/andhttp://www.php.net/to look up any weird
> and wonderful functions.
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> Myself, I learned PHP from the book "Web Database Applications with
> PHP & MySQL" from O'Reilly Books. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-
> Database-Applications-PHP-MySQL/dp/0596005431/) It took me about 3
> days to get to a stage where I could write a decent guestbook. If you
> learn the first few chapters you're pretty much laughing, the later
> chapters deal more with optimising your code than anything else.
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Amazon have just sold me that book.
Cheers for the heads up.
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