At 12:02 PM -0600 1/10/11, Donovan Brooke wrote:
Hello!, .. will try to keep this short!
I've been a long time lurker but minimal poster. I made it a new
years resolution to finally take on PHP jobs and now have my first
one (with a completion date in a couple weeks!).
I've been scripting in another language for many years and do know a
thing or two.. but anticipate bothering the list a few times in the
near future... hope that is fine with you all.
I'm just about through Larry Ullman's "PHP" third edition that I started
a couple days ago. Good book to start with I think, even for folks who
have some kind of head start in Web Programming. I'm able to skim over
a lot of it.
I don't know how you all remain sane in dealing with quotes
workarounds in echo/print statements, having to open/close PHP
parsing using <?php ?> all the time, and having to deal with array's
for just about everything... but I'm sure I'll get used to it and it
will become second nature at some point. ;-)
..Just turned 40 and had to finally change my monitor settings from
1920 X 1200 to 1344 X 840, which was like breathing fresh air after
being in a coal mine for 8 hours... I should have done that 5 years
ago
I think.
Cheers, to a new year, and new tricks for old dogs! ;-),
Donovan
Donovan:
As for 40 == Old dogs? What are you talking about? I've got underwear
older than that -- forty is young!
As for monitor settings, I have three monitors each set at 1680 x
1050 giving me a total of 5040 x 1050. My setup is almost enough for
me -- I wish it was taller.
As for Larry's books, he's a good writer and I've purchased all of
his books. I like "PHP and MySQL For Dynamic Web Sites" and "PHP
Advanced For the World Wide Web". If you know those, you'll do
alright.
As for "<?php ?>" just remember that HTML is the glue that holds
everything together. Write good HTML and your PHP will naturally fit
in where it's supposed to go.
Good luck on your job.
Cheers,
tedd
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