Posted by Erwin Moller on 05/17/06 15:59

monsey11@gmail.com wrote:

> I've been working on asp developing web applications the past few years
> now I'm offered a position only if i know PHP.
>
> do you think its a possibility?
>
> which book do you think will get me the through the quickest?
>
> thank you in advance

Hi,

My advise would be: Go. Take that PHP position.

A very short history of my programminglife:
- started with Perl. (Never mastered it, Perl is a kind of difficult
language for starters, but the Whole web was Perldriven.)
- got a job as VB/ASP/DB guy. Learned VB-script.
- Had enough of VB and learned Java (J2EE). Java is a beautifull language
IMHO, but often overly complex. And the API is just huge.
- started with PHP, ditched all other languages shortly after.
I only do PHP these days.

Now I am all pro-php: It is easy to get started for newcomers.
The language offers great flexibility, so you can develop your own 'taste'
of programming.
I also like www.php.net. It is THE place to lookup functioncalls, and also
contains often very usefull usercomments.

Well.. :-) Go PHP.
If you are coming from VB/ASP you can easily step into PHP, because the
structure resembles VB/ASP. (Jumping from code to literal HTML and such)

And as others have said: You can get a good feeling for PHP in a week or so.

Good luck.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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