Hi Everyone,
I'm trying to move from being a rank beginner to an intermediate level
of programming PHP. While practicing & trying to learn something new
every day, I'm also reading up on security (Essential PHP Security by
O'Reilly & Pro PHP Security by Apress).
Unfortunately, I still have a really tough time trying to work out the
logic of what I want a script to do, and my code is pretty primitive &
verbose because of that (I have to painstakingly step through each
little bit of logic in order to wrap my head around anything).
What I should be doing to get to the next level? Should I read up on web
application design? OOP? Just keep plugging away? What do you guys use
when working out the logic of an application you're building? I'm
guessing that would be some kind of flow chart?
What about IDEs? Because of my HTML coding & graphic design background,
I'm still using Dreamweaver--would I perhaps learn faster or be more
productive using Zend Studio (or even something less expensive like
phpDesigner)?
Please forgive the numerous questions, but I'm 40+ years old and want to
approach this professionally, not just be some hack who writes sloppy
code for for beer & pizza money and doesn't care about the client.
TIA,
Bev
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