Re: Conference Materials Site

Hi Rasmus! On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Guys, in an effort to pool our resources and provide a single repository > for conference materials, I have created http://conf.php.net > > The idea is that when/if you give a talk on PHP, you will be able to refer > people to http://conf.php.net/borland (for example, since I > just gave a > talk at the Borland conference). How about setting the contents for a PHP course? I was in the situation of giving a course in PHP for a week at Public Administration Training Center, and found it hard to choose *what* to teach'em. PHP is already huge, lots of function and functionalities, yet here and there missing docs. I was thinking it would be truly useful to set up such couse materials, say for three categories : novice -- learn the sintax and the term, general concepts, working with forms intermediate -- database interaction, array power,some selected modules, [like imap,mysql,odbc], etc. advanced -- OO programming, DB abstration layers, session usage for complex work, etc. uhm,not very inspired, just an example :) That would benefit ppl too, cause one can say `oh, I can start with novice first', and keep his/her mind clear of all the stuff (learning in small potions of `new' is a Good Thing[tm]) then go intermediate and advanced. There is already a fairly good manual, sites like upper-design or zend to collect script and libs, but these should be organized somehow to meet people's skills and undestanding. What do you think? -- teodor