Re: Newbie Questions

Bryan -- [BTW, I could not find your key on us.php.net or eu.php.net; is it on a keyserver?] ..and then Bryan Cassidy said... % % Could someone point me to a VERY good doc for learning PHP for a % NEWBIE!!! Something I can understand from the beginning to the end. YES Do you have any programming or scripting experience? If you know even a bit of something it's generally helpful when you want to pick up something else. I speak perl and shell well, do a lot of scripting, and can read some C (plus other things that have faded into memory :-) When I hadn't yet met php at all, a buddy bought me the PHP Developer's Cookbook from SAMS and it was easy to understand and presented some useful examples, and I was able to get started and do the work he wanted me to do (when I tried twice to thank him for the book he told me to shut up because "it's a self-serving gift" :-) It's no "Learning Perl", but then again it isn't supposed to be. Having worked my way through that, currently my only reference is the php manual from the web site; a quick search will take me to any function that I want to use, and only rarely am I stumped with a "how would I even approach this task?" problem -- and then this mailing list is wonderfully helpful. HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!