Slightly off topic - absolute best book to learn PHP from:
PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thompson.
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Web-Development-4th/dp/0672329166/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343241939&sr=1-1&keywords=php+and+mysql+web+development
If you want online tutorials - be very careful to look at the date that
the tutorial was put out. Some of them are really old and may show
bad/obsolete practices.
I personally still say use the PHP manual. It has a quick tutorial and
the language reference (http://www.php.net/manual/en/langref.php) covers
just about anything a PHP beginner needs (assuming they already know how
to code but need to find the "translations".
Lig
On 7/25/12 10:21 AM, Tim Holloway wrote:
I have mixed feelings about that approach.
The main problem with IDEs is that they generate code, but they don't
explain the code, so in order to understand it, you have to
reverse-engineer it. On top of that, the code generators for IDEs are
rarely producing clean, optimal code, since getting an automated code
generator to do that is a major undertaking that quickly reaches the
point of diminishing returns. The worst offenders even pull in
proprietary support packages to do it, although, thankfully, that's less
common than it used to be.
Which is why when people ask us on the JavaRanch what the "best" IDE is
for beginners, we tend to answer "Windows Notepad". Or, if we're in an
especially evil mood, "edlin".
I won't go so far as to utterly condemn using an IDE to help learn, but
I do strongly recommend that it not be the sole nor major learning tool.
Tim
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 09:23 -0400, Mike Rathburn wrote:
Here are instructions I wrote for getting it to work in an Ubuntu desktop
using Crossfire: http://forums.codecharge.com/posts.php?post_id=116290
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From: Ralph [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:49 AM
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Subject: Re: Looking for a PHP Crash manual
IDE's are great for stuff like that. I may go ahead and download that.
I will need to configure the repos for CentOS.. avoiding adding rawhide on
the CentOS. I also have my buntu boxes and Backtrack5, which being Debian
based, may seem easier to install this type of IDE.
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