PHP
With the whole job search coming up, I wanted to bone up on some old languages, as well as learn some new ones. I purchased a book on CSS, DHTML, and AJAX. I figured I could learn some new things about CSS, and get an intro to DHTML & AJAX. So far I have only made it through most of the CSS section.
After talking with my friend Lateef, he mentioned that I learn PHP. It would be good to know, kind of easy to learn, and good for future understanding of MySQL and Javascript. This conversation happened last Thursday, and right after work I headed out and picked up the Visual Quickstart Guide to PHP. Over the next several days I started reading, and watching video tutorials and making some PHP.
It’s been going pretty well. Today I made a few scripts. One was just a regular one, create a variable and display it lower on the page. The second one was generating information via a form on one page and passing it to a second page, both with POST and GET. I even figured out how to pass a page title via a hidden form field. The third script was an if/then statement.
I love this. It’s fun to have the brain working again. I feel the need for a real PHP project. Maybe in a week or so that will happen, right now I am content learning more about it.
