Comments on: PHP, what is it? http://www.redgraffix.com/blog/2009/09/30/php-what-is-it/ Blogging on graphic design and web development from Red Graffix Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:56:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Angela http://www.redgraffix.com/blog/2009/09/30/php-what-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Angela Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:56:34 +0000 http://redgraffix.com/blog/?p=75#comment-4 Good info. You may also want to consider taking the Actionscript class; it is Object oriented now (3.0) and it may help to have some guidance. Also, you can earn some good $$! Good info. You may also want to consider taking the Actionscript class; it is Object oriented now (3.0) and it may help to have some guidance. Also, you can earn some good $$!

]]> By: jason http://www.redgraffix.com/blog/2009/09/30/php-what-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3 jason Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:20:06 +0000 http://redgraffix.com/blog/?p=75#comment-3 Thanks, I have to check out that book. The concepts seem easy enough to me, I'm just not a natural programmer so actually writing code is always a little hard for me. Thanks, I have to check out that book. The concepts seem easy enough to me, I’m just not a natural programmer so actually writing code is always a little hard for me.

]]> By: Toby http://www.redgraffix.com/blog/2009/09/30/php-what-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Toby Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:22:50 +0000 http://redgraffix.com/blog/?p=75#comment-2 Yes yes, dynamic content is wonderful. PHP is somewhat messy as a programming language but is fairly easy. There's a book that I liked at the Tri-C library there to learn it, I believe by Kevin Yank, I forget what it was called. It seemed to step through it in a way that I found easy to understand, though I did already have PHP and programming experience before reading it. If you are planning on learning PHP fairly in-depth, you'll probably want to look at object oriented approaches, the model-view-controller paradigm, and DRY practices, among other popular trends. There are of course a whole lot of opensource PHP projects already built. For some things there are so many that it is hard to narrow down to the one that best fits your needs. There are frameworks available, such as <a href="http://cakephp.org" rel="nofollow">CakePHP</a>, that can make it easier to build your own projects, though you do have to learn how to work with them. Yes yes, dynamic content is wonderful. PHP is somewhat messy as a programming language but is fairly easy. There’s a book that I liked at the Tri-C library there to learn it, I believe by Kevin Yank, I forget what it was called. It seemed to step through it in a way that I found easy to understand, though I did already have PHP and programming experience before reading it. If you are planning on learning PHP fairly in-depth, you’ll probably want to look at object oriented approaches, the model-view-controller paradigm, and DRY practices, among other popular trends.

There are of course a whole lot of opensource PHP projects already built. For some things there are so many that it is hard to narrow down to the one that best fits your needs. There are frameworks available, such as CakePHP, that can make it easier to build your own projects, though you do have to learn how to work with them.

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