I am recommending, as best as you can lookup and use only coding examples that program with classes. Don't avoid it, go straight to it. Learn everything in context of classes, your potential hourly rate 9 months from now will ikely be 33% higher than what you might get without class knowledge. And my impression is that there is not a job posting anymore that doesn't call for classes.
A young turk should know the new stuff. Learn only the newest version of everything software, meaning e.g. PHP 6 and 5 over version 4.x. Never bother to learn old versions. By the time you get competitive nobody is gonna care that you know old versions of software. Use multi-page tutorials on the internet that show how to build a login section or make a basic mailer app. When you look these up with google, you might try to use the advanced search filter by date feature and stay with things posted within the last year to stay out of old ideas and techniques since marked as bad paractice. Get a book that shows several rudimetary projects done with classes and step by step coding. Look up all you function related questions on php.net. Often if you look at related functions you will find user contributions that answer your needs too. Ultimately, php.net usually answers everything. You'll find a lot of other answer sites source from php.net anyway. And, of course, yes, this list is pedigree for answers. Contibutors are awake all over the world 24 hrs, 7 days with answers often showing up within an hour. And if you cloak all questions as somehow related to a PHP issue, you can get excellent answers to RegExp, SQL, XML, AJAX and even CSS from people who a clearly expert. Meanwhile, like Jim Cramer be prepared for drinking some cheap dark Scotch by yourself down on the cold linoleum floor. Warmest regards, Peter Sawczynec Technology Dir. Sun-code.com Web related services 646.316.3678 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Campbell Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 5:34 PM To: talk@lists.nyphp.org Subject: [nyphp-talk] nyc php classes (night/long format) the classes at nyphp seem really good, but i'm a little hesitant to enroll in an intensive 2-day thing. would prefer something evenings, drawn out over a few weeks. gives more time to let things sink in and come up with questions. does anyone have any recommendations? as far as background, i've been doing front end development (hand coding html) for many years so i know my way around a text-editor and understand a lot of the basic principles of php but i have never attempted a php project on my own and am pretty hazy with anything concerning databases. thanks, jeremy _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
