| Feb. 23rd, 2006 @ 03:10 pm I lurning the php |
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So today a several hundred pound package was delivered to me containing 2 books on PHP, Beginning PHP 5 and My Sql: From Novice to Professional and PHP5 and MySql Bible.
There is quite a bit of reading, both books around 100 or so pages. I don't really expect to read both books from cover to cover as they both go over pretty much the same thing, but I'm not sure which one I'll focus on more yet, probably the PHP Bible since that is the one that most people suggested I get, and the other one I only bought because it was on sale if I bought the two of them together from Amazon.
Various factors prompted me to get these books. I am not really one to do scripting or programming. I always left that up to my friend Steve while I did the design stuff, but seeing as how I haven't seen Steve in over a year now, I guess if I want to keep doing web stuff I had better learn some of this shit myself, eh? Also, I'm bored as hell and figure I might as well learn something while I'm sitting around not working.
I've been considering learning php for a couple of years now. I've been working with it in online forums since 2003, but never really learned anythign about it until almost a year ago when Sights0d and I started Forumninja.com last April. Then a couple of months later I tried implimenting the Gmaercard mod and... well, the programming sucked on it. I knew what was wrong with it, I just had no clue how to fix it. I begged someone else to patch it up and things were good for a while. That little episode did throw the idea of learning PHP for myself back into my brain, but I was poor so I couldn't afford the books and living in Sherburne where I really didn't have anywhere to buy the books from other than online, so I just put the idea off for a while.
Now a few months later I'm even poorer than before seeing as how I don't have a job, I'm living in a different, slightly less crappy town that does have a bookstore, but still doesn't have crap as far as selection goes concerning computer related books, and forget about them being up to date. Around the same time I was moving Sights and I decided we were going to switch forumninja from phpBB over to CPGNuke. This was going to cause me to have to redo the gamercard mod since it wasn't exactly the same as the phpBB code. I tried hacking my way through the code by myself since the new forum is based off of phpBB, only with a bunch of added features to it, but I just couldn't get it to work. I was thinking of trying to convince someone else to beat the code into working order for me, but I was really determined to get it done myself... plus I was bored out of my mind and thanks to a local videogame store buying a ton of my old games and giving me a decent amount of cash back for them, I decided to just go ahead and buy a book and do something with all this time I have on my hands. |
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