[Watford] PHP

[Cliff Deamer]

Hi Yvan,
Hoping to see you Tuesday evening.
Cheers   Cliff
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 20:13 +0100, Yvan Seth wrote:
> <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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