Re: First PHP job

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 16:21 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:02:51PM -0600, Donovan Brooke wrote: > > > 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. ;-) > > That stuff's easy. I'm still trying to wrap my wits around the crazy way > functions are handled in Javascript. I know of no other language which > treats functions the way Javascript does. > > Wait until you get to PHP's automatic casting of strings to numbers under > the proper conditions. You'll scratch your head for quite a while once > you hit that one. > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > http://noferblatz.com > > or the ($needle, $haystack) vs ($haystack, $needle)... i still get it screwed up... thankfully php.net/{function_name} is easy to use :P -- Steve Staples Web Application Developer 519.258.2333 x8414