Re: Conference Materials Site

> 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? A course is a much bigger project. Once we have enough material at conf.php.net, a course could very well be put together. But, lets figure out how to crawl before we try to run a marathon. -Rasmus