Hal--
> I'd love to hear how PHP is to work with...
Like any language, it takes some ramp-up time to figure out commands and
protocols, etc. But aside from that, the language has gotten to be pretty
robust. You can pretty much do anything in PHP that you can do in
ColdFusion, language-wise anyway (I don't want to start any wars, now-- they
are different and have different strengths). PHP is object-oriented, too,
so you can take advantage of classes etc. to create reusable code libraries.
My background before CF was in Perl, so seeing things like "foreach" loops
and Perl-compatible regular expressions is comforting. It's also
open-source which tends to make the language widely supported, and there is
a lot of sample code around to help you get started. Like the Fusebox
community, there is a lot of sharing going on.
Oh, yeah-- you can also do image manipulation in PHP. I haven't delved into
it yet, but you can do things like add text to a graphic, generate graphs,
etc. all natively, without extra DLLs or server components.
Overall, I've really liked learning it. It is not as fast to pick up as CF
is, but that is stiff competition. It integrates really well with MySQL,
and there is support for a lot of other databases. It is free (so is
MySQL), and ported to a few different OSes, which makes it nice and
portable.
Anyway, there's tons of literature around. I haven't really bought a book
about it at all-- just O'Reilly's PHP Pocket Reference, which is for PHP3.
The better references are at www.zend.com and www.php.net.
Have fun exploring!
David Huyck
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