[PHP] Re: PHP The Right Way (website)
On 10/14/2012 1:10 AM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: This just dropped in my inbox the other day from Smashing #69: 2. PHP The Right Way If you are developing for the Web, the chances are high that you have to deal with PHP on a regular basis. However, once you've stumbled upon a problem that you have to solve, finding a good solution among thousands and thousands of (partly outdated) PHP tutorials out there can be quite a nightmare — especially if you are relatively new to PHP. Where would you go to learn about the current best practices in PHP? PHP The Right Way Perhaps PHP The Right Way. The site is an easy-to-read, quick reference for the best practices in PHP, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web. Josh Lockhart has worked together with a dozen of well-respected members of the PHP community to create a useful, up-to-date resource for everybody to use. I've just been perusing it, and it offers some good advice. Anyone here work on it / read it? Thoughts? Sounds like a good idea, but as for me - if I was a newbie I'd have a problem with their very first instructions. It says right off the start to type in the following: php -5 localhost:8000 which when I do (from a dos prompt) gives me a nice description of the command, but fails to do anything else for me. So how does this (as it says) help me learn with the hassle of configureing and installing a full-fledged web server? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: PHP The Right Way (website)
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: On 10/14/2012 1:10 AM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: This just dropped in my inbox the other day from Smashing #69: 2. PHP The Right Way If you are developing for the Web, the chances are high that you have to deal with PHP on a regular basis. However, once you've stumbled upon a problem that you have to solve, finding a good solution among thousands and thousands of (partly outdated) PHP tutorials out there can be quite a nightmare — especially if you are relatively new to PHP. Where would you go to learn about the current best practices in PHP? PHP The Right Way Perhaps PHP The Right Way. The site is an easy-to-read, quick reference for the best practices in PHP, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web. Josh Lockhart has worked together with a dozen of well-respected members of the PHP community to create a useful, up-to-date resource for everybody to use. I've just been perusing it, and it offers some good advice. Anyone here work on it / read it? Thoughts? Sounds like a good idea, but as for me - if I was a newbie I'd have a problem with their very first instructions. It says right off the start to type in the following: php -5 localhost:8000 which when I do (from a dos prompt) gives me a nice description of the command, but fails to do anything else for me. So how does this (as it says) help me learn with the hassle of configureing and installing a full-fledged web server? Are you running 5.4+? First thing it says is Use the current stable version (5.4). The PHP server (-S) is not available in anything earlier. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: PHP The Right Way (website)
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: Sounds like a good idea, but as for me - if I was a newbie I'd have a problem with their very first instructions. It says right off the start to type in the following: php -5 localhost:8000 That should be a capital S, not a five. -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: PHP The Right Way (website)
On 10/14/2012 12:06 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: On 10/14/2012 1:10 AM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: This just dropped in my inbox the other day from Smashing #69: 2. PHP The Right Way If you are developing for the Web, the chances are high that you have to deal with PHP on a regular basis. However, once you've stumbled upon a problem that you have to solve, finding a good solution among thousands and thousands of (partly outdated) PHP tutorials out there can be quite a nightmare — especially if you are relatively new to PHP. Where would you go to learn about the current best practices in PHP? PHP The Right Way Perhaps PHP The Right Way. The site is an easy-to-read, quick reference for the best practices in PHP, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web. Josh Lockhart has worked together with a dozen of well-respected members of the PHP community to create a useful, up-to-date resource for everybody to use. I've just been perusing it, and it offers some good advice. Anyone here work on it / read it? Thoughts? Sounds like a good idea, but as for me - if I was a newbie I'd have a problem with their very first instructions. It says right off the start to type in the following: php -5 localhost:8000 which when I do (from a dos prompt) gives me a nice description of the command, but fails to do anything else for me. So how does this (as it says) help me learn with the hassle of configureing and installing a full-fledged web server? Are you running 5.4+? First thing it says is Use the current stable version (5.4). The PHP server (-S) is not available in anything earlier. I'm not running anything. It says to type a command and I did. That's my point - it's kind of misleading in it's introduction. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: PHP The Right Way (website)
On 10/14/2012 12:12 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: Sounds like a good idea, but as for me - if I was a newbie I'd have a problem with their very first instructions. It says right off the start to type in the following: php -5 localhost:8000 That should be a capital S, not a five. hmmm, that does make a difference. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php