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Apr 4, 2001, 15:10 #1
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Hi, I'm a strictly HTML/graphics person with absolutely *no* programming background, and I want to make the jump to learn at least one server side language (i guess PHP is the easiest/cheapest compared to ASP and CF). unfortunately, i don' thave money to buy a book... where is a good website to begin learning about this stuff? any recommendations? how did you guys learn PHP?
thanks!
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Apr 4, 2001, 15:20 #2
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Check out the post Skunk made in a thread a while go, which I've provided a link to in my signature.
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Apr 4, 2001, 19:20 #3
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Here's some links to check out :
- Installing PHP :
------------------------------------------------------------ - http://www.e-gineer.com/instructions/
- http://www.php.net/manual/en/installation.php
- http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Script...allation_Kits/
Some basic PHP Tutorials : - http://www.gimpster.com/php/tutorial.php
- http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/PHP101_1/
- http://vsbabu.csoft.net/tutorials/php/
- http://php.vamsi.net/mysql/index.php
- http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php?aid=228&pid=0
Some tutorial/article locations :
------------------------------------------------------------ - http://devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/
- http://www.phpbuilder.com/
- http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/
- http://www.zend.com/zend/art/
- http://php.faqts.com/
- http://www.thickbook.com/
- http://www.weberdev.com/
- http://www.google.com/
- http://www.google.com/
- http://www.google.com/
Learn SQL related stuff :
------------------------------------------------------------ - http://sqlcourse.com/
- http://devshed.com/Server_Side/MySQL/Speak/
- http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/19
- http://w3.one.net/~jhoffman/sqltut.htm
- http://devshed.com/Server_Side/MySQL/Normal/
- http://phpbuilder.com/columns/joe20010104.php3
- http://phpbuilder.com/columns/allan20010115.php3
A tutorial that all should read :
------------------------------------------------------------ - http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/using-strings.php
- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
Coding convention (how your code should look like) :
------------------------------------------------------------ - http://phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20010101.php3
- http://phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001010.php3
- http://viewcvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/p...NDARDS?rev=1.6
The php-general mailing list archives are VERY valuable :
------------------------------------------------------------ - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general
Some useful PHP tips here :
------------------------------------------------------------ - http://www.php.net/tips.php
And a few scripts available here :
------------------------------------------------------------ - http://www.hotscripts.com/
- http://php.resourceindex.com/
- http://px.sklar.com/
- http://www.freshmeat.net/
- http://www.sourceforge.net/
And the most important, the PHP Manual :
------------------------------------------------------------ - http://www.php.net/manual/
Last edited by Philip Olson; Apr 5, 2001 at 00:29.
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Apr 5, 2001, 03:41 #4
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That's an excellent set of links. My top recommendation is the PHP tutorial on SitePoint:
www.webmasterbase.com/article.php/228/
I've recommended that to so many people I've lost count - it really is an excellent introduction to PHP (it was that article that got me hooked on SitePoint in the first place).
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Apr 6, 2001, 03:39 #5
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thanks a lot, everyone!
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