ktown — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:06:48 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Megan Jack
Does anyone know of any other good tutorials for getting started?

Apparently this is supposed to be pretty usefull, I haven't had a chance to look at it yet but i hope to tonight

http://webmasterbase.com/article.php/228

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mairving — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:38:36 +0000

ASP is generally more often a Microsoft product, although there are versions like ChiliSoft made for Linux/Unix.

PHP is open-source code. Go to PHP.net to learn more about PHP. Generally PHP is used in a combo of Linux/Unix, Apache & MYSQL, although there are windows versions out there.

ktown — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:12:39 +0000

thanks!

yeah i have to figure out how to make my own life easier becuase repetitive content that is of NO interest to you can get pretty dull after a week or so

so what is the difference between ASP & PHP then, just the support?

Megan — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:03:09 +0000

Oh, and another thing you might want to know is that ASP is a lot more likely to show up in job postings around here (not like there have been any job postings lately ), although I think PHP is starting to get more popular.

Megan — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:58:25 +0000

PHP and ASP are server side database integration languages, so you can use them to call your content from a database (among other things) which will make life easier. Someone else would be able to explain that better. I'm just starting out on this myself, but I'm planning on using tutorials at webmonkey.com and/or sitepoint.com. Does anyone know of any other good tutorials for getting started?

ONe thing you'll need to know is what kind of server your site is hosted on - if it's on Windows you'll probably need to use ASP (although it might support PHP anyway - find out), if it's on Unux you'll want PHP.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:02:15 +0000

YES! Learn PHP and mySQL, it will make life easier.

I ~~HIGHLY~~ recommend getting very acquainted with http://php.net. They have a very good manual with search capabilities, and user contributed notes (very handy). They also have a neat funcion lookup.

I have the PHP 4 Bible written by Tim Converse and Joyce Park, published by IDG. It's a good book, and has a good index. (but I seem to use php.net more often than the book)

I don't have a book for mySQL. I just kinda learned it by trial and error, and reading docs on http://mysql.com.