On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Development <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe time to broaden ones horizons beyond our beloved VFP. Excellent idea! > Decided it is > about time to catch-up with some of these new web languages, PHP is quite > basic so seems a good place to start. New? :) PHP (and Python and Ruby) are 15 years old -ish! You're certainly avoiding the bleeding edge :) I've worked in PHP since 2004, spent a couple of years working in Ruby, and admire a lot of the work I've seen in Python. All are worth learning, at least enough to get by. Coming from VFP, you may find Python a little easier to pick up, and may appreciate the more sophisticated frameworks in Python and Ruby a bit more than PHP. > W3CSchools website has a reasonable tutorial here: > http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp I haven't read their php tutorial, but I have to warn you that a lot of folks who's opinions I suggest feel their HTML info is badly out-of-date and that their advice is poor. > Does anyone have any suggestions of a good forum for discussing PHP matters, > where do the PHP community live? I have found few communities on the Internet as friendly and welcoming as the FoxPro forums in days of yore. > There is lots of Open Source PHP software out there for doing various things > on a website but I need to get a bit involved in the PHP community to find > out more. You can certainly start learning with the excellent resources to be found at http://php.net such as http://www.php.net/manual/en/ I'd encourage you to try to locate a local user group and work from your local community outwards. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
