Re: Looking for a PHP Crash manual

Slightly off topic - absolute best book to learn PHP from:

PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thompson.

http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Web-Development-4th/dp/0672329166/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343241939&sr=1-1&keywords=php+and+mysql+web+development

If you want online tutorials - be very careful to look at the date that 
the tutorial was put out.  Some of them are really old and may show 
bad/obsolete practices.

I personally still say use the PHP manual. It has a quick tutorial and 
the language reference (http://www.php.net/manual/en/langref.php) covers 
just about anything a PHP beginner needs (assuming they already know how 
to code but need to find the "translations".

Lig



On 7/25/12 10:21 AM, Tim Holloway wrote:
> I have mixed feelings about that approach.
>
> The main problem with IDEs is that they generate code, but they don't
> explain the code, so in order to understand it, you have to
> reverse-engineer it. On top of that, the code generators for IDEs are
> rarely producing clean, optimal code, since getting an automated code
> generator to do that is a major undertaking that quickly reaches the
> point of diminishing returns. The worst offenders even pull in
> proprietary support packages to do it, although, thankfully, that's less
> common than it used to be.
>
> Which is why when people ask us on the JavaRanch what the "best" IDE is
> for beginners, we tend to answer "Windows Notepad". Or, if we're in an
> especially evil mood, "edlin".
>
> I won't go so far as to utterly condemn using an IDE to help learn, but
> I do strongly recommend that it not be the sole nor major learning tool.
>
>     Tim
>
> On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 09:23 -0400, Mike Rathburn wrote:
>> Here are instructions I wrote for getting it to work in an Ubuntu desktop
>> using Crossfire:  http://forums.codecharge.com/posts.php?post_id=116290
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ralph [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:49 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Looking for a PHP Crash manual
>>
>> IDE's are great for stuff like that.  I may go ahead and download that.
>> I will need to configure the repos for CentOS.. avoiding adding rawhide on
>> the CentOS.  I also have my buntu boxes and Backtrack5, which being Debian
>> based, may seem easier to install this type of IDE.
>>
>>
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Jason and Ligaya Turmelle

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