Advice for a re-tread

I have been writing Cold Fusion code for a number of years using both
SQL Server and Access. Cold Fusion used to be pretty good when it was
owned by Allaire. In my opinion, a downhill slide started when
MacroMedia took it over. Now that Adobe has it, I have visions of my
web pages taking as long to load as Adobe and with just as much
overhead.
Therefore I have a sense that I should seriously look at PHP. Can
anyone advise a good source (web site or book) that would help me make
the transition. Any advice would be appreciated.

re: Advice for a re-tread

Programming PHP by O'Reilly is a great beginner's book.
http://www.php.net/ is a great resource to reference code and
descriptions for individual functions within PHP.


Cheers

Jon Tjemsland

re: Advice for a re-tread

Marty wrote:
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> I have been writing Cold Fusion code for a number of years using both
> SQL Server and Access. Cold Fusion used to be pretty good when it was
> owned by Allaire. In my opinion, a downhill slide started when
> MacroMedia took it over. Now that Adobe has it, I have visions of my
> web pages taking as long to load as Adobe and with just as much
> overhead.
> Therefore I have a sense that I should seriously look at PHP. Can
> anyone advise a good source (web site or book) that would help me make
> the transition. Any advice would be appreciated.[/color]

Actually, the PHP docs have a great little tutorial and introduction. Take
a look through that if you haven't already and that should get you ready
for some more specific questions.

The link to the docs is right on the home page, www.php.net
--
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)

re: Advice for a re-tread

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Marty
of comp.lang.php make plain:
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> I have been writing Cold Fusion code for a number of years using both
> SQL Server and Access. Cold Fusion used to be pretty good when it was
> owned by Allaire. In my opinion, a downhill slide started when
> MacroMedia took it over. Now that Adobe has it, I have visions of my
> web pages taking as long to load as Adobe and with just as much
> overhead.
> Therefore I have a sense that I should seriously look at PHP. Can
> anyone advise a good source (web site or book) that would help me make
> the transition. Any advice would be appreciated.[/color]

It depends on how basic you need to go. Have you been using CFScript or
CFHTML? If the former, or if you've worked in other languages, you should
have little trouble transitioning to PHP. If you've only worked in
CFHTML, it might take a bit more adjustment, but still not bad.

Others have suggested the PHP site itself; W3Schools.com has a pretty
extensive tutorial:

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

Developer's Shed has lotsa stuff:

http://www.devshed.com/c/b/PHP/

The links page on the PHP site has a lot of good resources:

http://us3.php.net/links.php#tutorials

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/