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Learning PHP?
Submitted by rimian on Mon, 12/18/2006 - 07:17
If you're confused on which book to buy I suggest downloading the PHP documentation and have it running on your hard drive. When I learnt (learned) it I found it much easier than flicking through a book. Books are hard. I got kicked out of class heaps when I was in year 9.
It's online here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/
You can download it here:
http://www.php.net/download-docs.php
There is a good tutorial and tons of examples.
I'll write a post on how to get PHP running on your local network...
The download is free.
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A long time ago I wrote up a tutorial on setting up a LAPP stack.
http://james.k-sit.com/articles.php?s_id=57&art_id=52
Here's how to get your Windows Server to run PHP and MySQL:
See this article on builderau:
Install, configure and integrate PHP and MySQL on Windows
That's called a WIMP Server. Windows, MySQL, PHP.
I gotta admit that books still do it for me. One of my favourites was written by two melbourne academics:
PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition)
There is also a review on what sounds like a good book over at snooks site
http://snook.ca/archives/snooks_book_nook/review_php_solutions/
PHP Online Book
http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/index.php
nice
Here's an article aimed at Web Designers:
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/php_for_designers/
And a Wikibook:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:PHP
I found this site for php editors. It has reviews of php editors like Zend Studio:
http://www.php-editors.com
I really wouldn't recommend using the Windows server setup, it really kinda sucks. I found this WAMP package, with all the latest versions of apache, php and mysql, and it is stable and fast.
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
Yeh by the time you get it all running on windows you could have recycled an old pc as a LAMP server.
Some info on recycling old PCs here:
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3025/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum48/2432.htm
http://www.freelancewebdeveloper.net.au/topic.php?id=15
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