Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-25 Thread tedd
At 3:01 PM +0100 4/24/10, Ashley Sheridan wrote: I look at some code I did a while back and shudder. It started off well enough, but then feature creep set in and now it looks like a creation of Frankenstein! I think it happens to all of us at some point, it just depends how well we deal with

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-25 Thread David McGlone
On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:46:33 Nathan Rixham wrote: David McGlone wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-25 Thread paragasu
Just build what you want to build and look things up when necessary. I did exactly like this. My first application is a forum. It never made it to production, but i learn a lot. And i am glad i learn it this way. It is a bit costly but fun. On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:01 PM, David McGlone

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-25 Thread David McGlone
On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:01:03 Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 07:14 -0400, David McGlone wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-25 Thread Nathan Rixham
David McGlone wrote: On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:46:33 Nathan Rixham wrote: Aside: in every project i do, and at all times i have a test.php where I literally just try out ways of doing things and snippets of code, once I'm done i stick an exit; before it then do the next snippet above it,

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-25 Thread David McGlone
Another one from this morning that didn't seem to make it to the list. On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:01:03 Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 07:14 -0400, David McGlone wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-24 Thread David McGlone
On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? -- Blessings, David M. Just build

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-24 Thread David McGlone
On Friday 23 April 2010 10:15:46 Paul M Foster wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:15:11AM -0400, David McGlone wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? Obviously, a good book will help. I'd

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-24 Thread Jason Pruim
On Apr 24, 2010, at 7:14 AM, David McGlone wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-24 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 07:14 -0400, David McGlone wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-24 Thread Nathan Rixham
David McGlone wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? -- Blessings, David M.

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-24 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 15:46 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: David McGlone wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything

[PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-23 Thread David McGlone
Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? -- Blessings, David M. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-23 Thread Peter Lind
On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? The Zend study guide might be a place to start - not for free thought, so there may be better options

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-23 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 07:15 -0400, David McGlone wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? -- Blessings, David M. I started the way I guess most people did: from a basic book which broke

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? -- Blessings, David M. Just build what you want to build and look things up when necessary. The

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-23 Thread Jay Ess
David McGlone wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? My way of learning a new language is to decide on a small project to code and then learn just that i need to do for that exact feature i

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

2010-04-23 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:15:11AM -0400, David McGlone wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? Obviously, a good book will help. I'd recommend O'Reilly's Programming PHP. Some of this also depends