Date: 07/30/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql, web

About a week ago I made a post asking for references on PHP because I had just interviewed for a job at a web design firm and my lack of PHP knowledge was one of the things holding me down. Well, like I said, I spent all weekend studying PHP (thanks for all the references everyone!) and tearing apart existing PHP scripts until I was able to write my own scripts without using any reference. By Tuesday I had written a blog system using PHP and MySQL (complete with login authentication using sessions, add, edit and delete entries, and add or remove posters on the system, plus much much more...which, I'm pretty sure you would agree is a pretty easy task, but having only started learning PHP three days prior, I'm quite proud of myself).

Anyway, I went in for the second interview on Wednesday this week and showed them what I had accomplished over the four days between interviews.

This morning I got a call from them offering the job to me :o) I start on the 15th.

Anyway, I just wanted to thank everyone for hooking me up with the PHP references.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/228601.html