Ken Robinson wrote:
I would join one of the on-line PHP related forums. I joined the
PHPFreaks forum <http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php> 2.5 years
ago and found it very helpful.
Thanks. I've visited the site before but not the forum--I'll definitely
take a look.
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)?
I've never used Dreamweaver, so I can't tell you anything pro or con.
I've used TopStyle Pro, since it's very good at HTML, CSS, & PHP
editing. I would also recommend installing a local copy of
Apache/PHP/MySQL on your everyday computer, so you have a place to
experiment. I use xampp <http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html> on
my Windows XP laptop. I've been able to develop code on Windows and
upload to my Linux host with no problems.
I've got PHP installed on my primary computer and Apache/PHP/MySQL
installed on a secondary one on my home network for testing purposes.
The only problem I've run into is a situation where the server was
running an old version of MySQL that caused a problem with importing
tables. It was relatively easy to fix though.
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.
Questions are one of the best ways to learn.
Indeed they are. It's good to know you guys are tolerant of them. I was
a little intimidated by the level of experience & knowledge I noticed
here, but I figured as long as I asked reasonable questions no one would
bite my head off. IOW not like some of the questions I often see in
web-related forums like, "hI gUyZ! I just got a copy of Dreamweaver and
I wanna build my first web site. I want it to be like YouTube. Can u
tell me how to do it? BTW, can u also tell me how to set up a site in
Dreamweaver?" Ummmm... to answer question #1, NO. To answer question #2,
press F1.
And don't worry about being older, I didn't start to learn PHP until
I was almost 50 (47 or 48 to be almost exact).
Well I'm 45, so I guess there's hope for me yet. ;-)
Regards,
Bev
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