Re: [PHP] CakePHP, alternatives?

2010-06-05 Thread Larry Garfield
One other thing I will add: Don't just learn PHP. Learn Javascript as well. Don't treat it as PHP without dollar signs, but learn Javascript as Javascript, and PHP as PHP. Then after you've gotten some time with those, take some time to learn, or at least learn about even if you never work

Re: [PHP] CakePHP, alternatives?

2010-06-04 Thread Shreyas
Trying again. --Shreyas On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Shreyas shreya...@gmail.com wrote: Larry, That's a very nice way to learn stuff. That's what I am doing but probably in a very crude way. I am just reading a PHP book and doing those examples. Would you recommend any other

Re: [PHP] CakePHP, alternatives?

2010-06-04 Thread Hans Åhlin
The thing I did beside the stuff already mentioned is, I took stuff from real life and I tried to define them and then write a program that handled/simulated it. ** Hans Åhlin Tel: +46761488019 icq: 275232967 http://www.kronan-net.com/

Re: [PHP] CakePHP, alternatives?

2010-06-04 Thread tedd
At 11:21 PM +0530 6/3/10, Shreyas wrote: Folks, Just quite could not stop taking your inputs before I start my learning curve to shape up. Should I use one of these frameworks or just *K*eep *I*t *S*imple and *S*tupid and learn it the traditional way? Thoughts? -- Regards, Shreyas Shreyas:

Re: [PHP] CakePHP, alternatives?

2010-06-04 Thread Shreyas
Tedd, That was very very very helpful. I so agree with you on the A,B and C example that you have quoted. It not only boosts my confidence with the answers but so will the employer's. I am reading this PHP for Dummies and then I plan to read Head First with PHP, MySQL, and Apache. Do you know

Re: [PHP] CakePHP, alternatives?

2010-06-04 Thread tedd
Tedd, That was very very very helpful. I so agree with you on the A,B and C example that you have quoted. It not only boosts my confidence with the answers but so will the employer's. I am reading this PHP for Dummies and then I plan to read Head First with PHP, MySQL, and Apache. Do you

[PHP] CakePHP, alternatives?

2010-06-03 Thread Shreyas
Folks, Just quite could not stop taking your inputs before I start my learning curve to shape up. Should I use one of these frameworks or just *K*eep *I*t *S*imple and *S*tupid and learn it the traditional way? Thoughts? -- Regards, Shreyas

Re: [PHP] CakePHP, alternatives?

2010-06-03 Thread la...@garfieldtech.com
First spend time working with straight up PHP, writing your own stuff, throwing it away, and writing it again. What you'll learn that way is immeasurable. Then pick a framework (Cake, Drupal, Symfony, Zend, PEAR, whatever) and learn it, maybe two. Try working with it and extending it.

Re: [PHP] CakePHP, alternatives?

2010-06-03 Thread Shreyas
Larry, That's a very nice way to learn stuff. That's what I am doing but probably in a very crude way. I am just reading a PHP book and doing those examples. Would you recommend any other innovative way of learning and mastering this language? Regards, Shreyas On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:25 PM,