First PHP job

From: Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:02:51 +0000
Subject: First PHP job
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Hello!, .. will try to keep this short! I've been a long time lurker but minimal poster. I made it a new years resolution to finally take on PHP jobs and now have my first one (with a completion date in a couple weeks!). I've been scripting in another language for many years and do know a thing or two.. but anticipate bothering the list a few times in the near future... hope that is fine with you all. I'm just about through Larry Ullman's "PHP" third edition that I started a couple days ago. Good book to start with I think, even for folks who have some kind of head start in Web Programming. I'm able to skim over a lot of it. I don't know how you all remain sane in dealing with quotes workarounds in echo/print statements, having to open/close PHP parsing using <?php ?> all the time, and having to deal with array's for just about everything... but I'm sure I'll get used to it and it will become second nature at some point. ;-) ..Just turned 40 and had to finally change my monitor settings from 1920 X 1200 to 1344 X 840, which was like breathing fresh air after being in a coal mine for 8 hours... I should have done that 5 years ago I think. Cheers, to a new year, and new tricks for old dogs! ;-), Donovan -- D Brooke

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