I've been playing with PHP for a while and am currently working on some
classes to use in some database driven projects. It's extremely easy to
learn, especially if you have a rudimentary understanding of
programming. Additionally, resources are actually fairly abundant with
lots of example code to gander at. The PHP site has links to many of
these source repositories. A few books have been published, but I'd read
the customer reviews to get an idea before ordering one. I'd be happy
with a reference book, but have happily made do with the online manual.
Setting it up on your computer takes a few steps, but is fairly
straightforward. I got the latest src.rpms for Apache, MySQL, and PHP -
and edited the PHP spec file to produce a MySQL module (it defaults to
postgresql) and with some very minor tweaking I've got it all up and
runnning on my system first time around. I find it easy to do both
linear and object oriented programming with. I don't know if I'm ready
to abandon Perl, but PHP is quite powerful in it's own right...

Mike Sheldon wrote:
> 
> I'm curious, how many people here develop Web applications using PHP?
> 
> I've been doing a bit of development with it, and find it to be quite mature
> and reasonably powerful. However, resources for PHP programmers are still
> pretty sparse in the way of newsgroups, user groups, etc...
> 
> Michael J. Sheldon
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