[SWLUG] Programming language for a dummy

[Christopher Swift]

On the topic of PHP this month's Linux Format has a tutorial booklet
for PHP with it entitled "Paul Hudson's PHP Coding Academy".  It's a
64page booklet showing you how to manipulate images, MySQL databases,
XML and more with PHP.

On 1 August 2010 15:38, David Scourfield <david.scourfield at llynfi.co.uk> wrote:
> Personally, I found PHP really easy to learn for web development stuff.
> The online documentation at php.net is very thorough indeed, and the
> official tutorial is, in my opinion, very good to work through to get a
> grip of the language itself.
>
> PHP also has a CLI environment so you can write scripts to run from the
> command line.  I've not used this extensively, but it's pretty much the
> same as its web development version.  I also think PHP has very easy to
> use file handling functions.  For example, a file can be read entirely
> into a string variable using one function "file_get_contents()" or
> alternatively into an array where each array element is one line of the
> file using the function "file()".  These can make parsing and
> pattern-matching on a whole file or line-by-line basis respectively very
> easy indeed.
>
> I like PHP :-)
>
> Dai
>
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