[plug] Learning PHP advice

[Timothy White]

> I feel that the PHP reference manual is very good, and it is all I
> used to learn the language. Read through the short tutorial bit, skim
> the language and feature reference, read the security bit (especially
> if you haven't done web programming before!) and then just browse the
> function definitions as you use them in a project. That works for me,
> though YMMV as always.

I must agree with Patrick here. The php manual is VERY good,
(especially compared to the perldoc...). Having  a local copy on my
machine has been very useful, and I still refer to it, even though PHP
is the language I work in most.
I basically took my C/FORTRAN/Perl... knowledge, started coding php,
looking up the manual for function names, and syntax, and it was all I
needed! Of course, some other things, I've taken longer to develop,
for example MySql PHP application's, which I do work in, but took
awhile to work out the best approaches.

Tim
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