Re: php beginner, needs help to get started...

PHP is, hands down, the best language for web page display. Perl, Java, and Visual Basic all have their plusses, but none of them were ground-up designed for generating and displaying web pages. Perl can do an OK job at it, but Java (via JSP) and Visual Basic (via ASP) seem to just bolt on the web as an afterthought. However, given the fact that they aren't the right tools for the job, require more effort to get anything done, and are yet popular, means that you'll always be able to find a job that requires experience in them. Sad, but true. For your own personal sanity, I'd highly recommend learning PHP. But for your professional development, the Next Thing (tm) is probably ASP pages using the .NET framework. Ive played with them and C# a bit, and its literally frightening how easy it is for people to program web services. I know of no PHP books or pages in Greek... but there is a small newsgroup on yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php_greek/ -- Brian 'Bex' Huff bex@stellent.com Phone: 952-903-2023 Fax: 952-829-5424 > I want to start learning programing in PHP, basicaly for web development. > I'm looking forward for a good begginers book in my language (Greek). Does > anyone know any links with documents about php for beginers that could help > me? Any advices? Other stuff that I'll start studing, that will help me in > php-web development? And one last question? Is it worth it to learn PHP? or > does anyone believes that I shall learn something else for web development? > (example: .NET, .asp ???) > >