Re: Newbie Book & Database Question

Try "PHP and MySQL Web Development", by Luke Welling and Laura Thompson; only one thing, maybe you'll have troubles with the form variables, put this code at the beginning of all book examples foreach (array_merge($_POST,$_GET) as $key=>$val) { global $$key; $$key=$val; } Code made by Alok K. Dhir ;-) At 08:02 25/04/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Howdy, > >I have been developing with ColdFusion for nearly five years and want to >learn PHP. For someone who has never done anything with PHP before, what >*one* book would you recommend as a good primer to get started learning PHP? > >Also, do most PHPers use MySQL as your database when building dynamic web >sites, or do you prefer alternative databases like Postgres? From what I >have seen from afar, MySQL seems to be the dominant one, but I have read >that Postgres is more robust. > >Thanks in advance and cheers from San Antonio, > >Chris Montgomery monty@airtightweb.com > >Airtight Web Services http://www.airtightweb.com >Web Development, Web Project Management, Software Sales >210-490-3249/888-745-7603 > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php