OK, a bit of clarification here, I'm not a beginner. I write Internet apps
for a living, and have been doing so for a few years.

No need to tell me how good PHP is, I already know it rocks. :) I'm just
looking for additional resources, like newsgroups or websites. (Newsgroups
apparently don't exist yet, but someone did post a short list of sites that
are useful, thanks!)

BTW: if anyone here is writing e-com apps in PHP, I've nearly completed a
PHP interface to InterShipper's shipping quote service. (Gets shipping
charges for many different carriers) I'm looking for a couple of people who
can help in testing (it's fully-functional, but needs more/better
error-control and data validation). Info on the module is at
http://www.desertraven.com/phpintershipper.html I haven't posted the module
yet, since I'm still changing it frequently, drop me a note if you want to
test it.

Michael J. Sheldon
Internet Applications Developer
Phone: 480.699.1084
http://www.desertraven.com/
PGP Key Available on Request

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Subject: Re: PHP


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
> Internet Applications Developer
> Phone: 480.699.1084
> http://www.desertraven.com/
> PGP Key Available on Request
>
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