Actually, the online annotated manual at php.net was a pretty good "jump-in-quick" guide itself - I just read the first couple of chapters. Then again, having already been experienced in Perl and C, it was mostly just picking up the minor differences for me.
Another thing that was good was that PHP was essentially clusters of related functions so I'd just go to the chapter on whatever subsystem I was interested in. I did OK on things like general theory such as web forms, but YMMV. I'm afraid that I haven't really found anything that good on PHP's attempts to retrofit for object-orientation, Model/View/Controller or vendor-neutral database interfacing, but I mostly use PHP for superficial stuff these days (except when customizing wiki or wordpress). For quick-and-dirty MVC/ORM, I use django (Python), and of course, my bread-and-butter is Enterprise Java. Tim On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 19:37 -0400, Ralph wrote: > On 07/24/2012 04:20 PM, Ligaya Turmelle wrote: > > Please define "crash manual". I personally always just used the PHP > > manual itself for just about everything - http://www.php.net/manual/en/ > > > > Lig > > > > On 7/24/12 3:48 PM, Ralph wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I have been as some of you know messing around with LAMP and running > >> some servers. I now have been asked to look into just php coding. > >> Although I have some php coding under my belt, and I do own a couple of > >> manuals on PHP, I am looking for a crash course, mainly dealing with > >> variables and strings. If anyone has any ideas or recommendations for a > >> good PHP crash manual, let me know. Thanks. > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > >> RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > >> Unsubscribe [email protected] > >> > > > > > Hi Lig. My definition of a crash manual would be basically a condensed > text that I can work from regarding PHP, generalized, that could be a > launchpad to other topics. I believe that this link is a good start. I > am looking at variables and strings though, pertaining to web forms more > than likely, with storage examples as well as dealing out appropriate > responses to null variables and what not. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
