Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Marty
of comp.lang.php make plain:
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.
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
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Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/