[Watford] PHP

[Cliff Deamer]

Another good input Walter, I am sure we would all like to get Yvan
involved in the discussion.
cheers  Cliff


On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 10:41 +0000, walt wrote:
> Many thanks again Yvan. If you fancy an outing to the nightlife of Leavesden
> I can offer you a lift in my 'Ford Fiesta' :-)  I grant you it isn't easy to
> get to but depending on where you live in Ricky, we can take the M25 to
> Huntonbridge and its just up the road from there.
> 
> I live near Northwood by the way so its not too much of a treck to Ricky.
> 
> Walter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Yvan Seth
> Sent: 01 December 2007 19:13
> To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Watford] PHP
> 
> <quote who="walt">
> > So now to learning the language.  There must be oodles of 
> > documentation on the web. But I may be picking your brains later in my 
> > learning curve if thats ok.
> 
> My PHP knowledge is rather rusty, been 4 years since I did much with it.
> (I'm more of a C/C++ developer (who also does a lot of Perl/Python utility
> scripting) and only has a peek at web development every once in a while.)
> But it sounds like there are others on this list who can help, and the
> online community is a virtually infinite resource!  
> 
> > BTW: I am atheist with the motto live and let live.  So you have no 
> > worries on that front.  I have read quite a lot about it all and 
> > although some of it is well over my head I figured PHP looks like my 
> > best bet to start with.  Should I get to point of where I start seeing 
> > the advantages of the other technologies I will have no hesitation in 
> > using them.
> 
> PHP is a good starting point, since it was designed for web development from
> the start working with it has a pretty "seamless" quality.
> Choosing between PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby/etc is more a matter if aesthetics
> these days as they all have all the functionality you'd ever want, massive
> communities built around them, and a handful of "frameworks" up their
> sleeves.  Like Neel said, probably best to stick with one to start with :)
> 
> > I will need database access and if frameworks - django can do that I 
> > might well switch to that in a few weeks.  I'll check it out.
> 
> PHP can deal just fine with any database you'd care to use and there's a
> heap of existing work to build on.  Zend, as mentioned by Neel, is certainly
> worth looking at.
> 
> > Are you going to the meeting (6th December) next week?
> 
> Not sure.  I don't drive and have to come up from Ricky, the location seems
> a little out of the way.
> 
> Cheers
> -Yvan
> 
> 
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