Re: What is the learning curve for PHP?



In article <1175574132.067045.314570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
K.J.Williams <lordwill@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
so in every Java Script, there has to be a conditional statement
which catches the web browsers type and use the best most
procedures - this might make my work with PHP not very easy for
web page generation.

Why not? PHP has an environment variable to tell you the client's user
agent string. You can then output whatever you want based on that.

One crazy question is PHP derived from Perl , like C++ is derived
from C?

PHP uses C++ syntax, but also makes use of some perl features such
as regular expression matching -- if you want them. To me, PHP
feels more like C++ without the strong variable typing constraints.

I hope I made good choices since I was completely lost by the
number of books on PHP that I could buy so I went with my best
thoughts as I reviewed them and thats what I choose.

Personally I think you're buying too many books. The only thing I
ever needed for PHP was the online documentation at www.php.net.
The books are available for others to make money from you. Nothing
wrong with that, but if you already have a few programming languages
under your belt, you don't need yet another book for PHP, in my
opinion.

-A
.



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