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blog17 · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 144 Location: London, UK

Hey!

OK, I am now officially learning PHP. I downloaded Sams PHP in 24 hours (thats 24 separate 1 hour lessons) and it seems to be working for me. I have read up to hour 7 (Arrays). I think that I have real grasp on PHP now. Before I even read about the foreach function, I had already created a way to do the same thing using the while function (a much longer way!). But thats just an example of how Im really getting the hang of it all.

Anyway... I think I will use this thread to post updates on my progression. There is no-one else I can tell about this stuff! Hopefully you'll pat me on the back and tell me to "go on", supporting me?
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sabotage · Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 36

/me pats blog17 on the back and yells "Go on my boy! You can do it!"

something like that? Razz

blog17 · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 144 Location: London, UK

Mizkie · Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 51 Location: Bloomington, IN

go, go, go.
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blog17 · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 144 Location: London, UK

OK people;

After having read certain chapters over and over again, Im really getting on my way. Im currently learning: "Working with Forms", then I'll be learning, "Working with Files"... then the juicy database stuff will come.

What Im really looking forward to though is, "Working with Strings"... alot of cool stuff in there. Then it basically goes on to teaching me more about what I have learnt in detail, such as "Working with Data".

I do recommend the book to anyone starting out in PHP, but to be honest, I believe that some programming experience is necessary. After many failed attempts to learn C++, I got out of it the basics of syntax for programming which I beieve has gotten me as far as I have through this book.

Something tells me Im going to need to buy a separate book on SQL though.
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