To get further than the tutorial, I'm now going through the somewhat dated 2004 book, Beginning PHP5 by Mercer, et al. So yay, more random posts on stuff I'm learning. I know you're so excited! LOL Chapter 2 of this book deals with writing simple programs. A lot of the […]
Finally, the good stuff! 😉 Connecting with databases, running queries, and using the results. I suspect this will be a pretty fast run through for me unless they made some dramatic changes to how DB stuff is handled. Of course the tutorial uses MySQL, but since it’s what we use […]
I'm guessing this will be another big topic, and it is certainly the first that is pretty much totally new to me for PHP stuff. Depending on how long/slow I go through this bit, I may break this up into multiple posts. But for now…let's read the introduction. Before reading that, […]
Before even getting started with my tutorial, was working with my partner on the CakePHP set up. He noticed that many of the PHP files had no closing ?> We both were always taught you had to close them, and couldn't figure WTF it was even working. So quick Google of […]
So I’ve mentioned a few times that our shop is switching to PHP, and we’re actually getting started this week. While my partner works on figuring out how to set up CakePHP, the framework we’re leaning towards, I’ve started doing some PHP tutorials. Nothing like having to learn a “new” […]
Just over a year ago I also mentioned that in our shop, we will be transitioning away from ColdFusion. During that time frame, we haven't had any actual new development, mostly working on updates to existing sites, so the transition hasn't really started yet. However, after we deal with one more […]