harks — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 05:02:18 +0000

Thanks everyone for your help... I'm only new to this site but I'm hooked.

Thanks again... Harks

Adrian J. Moreno — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:03:14 +0000

I'll second "Javascript for the WWW". I use that book when I teach. Also, check out http://www.webcoder.com for a really good introduction to the Document Object Model (DOM).

detox — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:18:16 +0000

I know when I was learning I started out with the SAMS.net Javascript Unleashed. This was a really good book. Either that or the Javascript Bible.

There are a lot of fairly decent sites out there, but I would say one of the best has been Webmonkey's intro, that gave me a pretty solid grounding. Go to find tutorials for a start.

good luck...

Megan — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:21:27 +0000

THere's also a good tutorial at Webmonkey.com and one called Voodoo's intro to Javascript (just search for that) - both are a little bit outdated but that shouldn't matter much. The problem I found with online tutotirals is that, at least when I was trying to learn, none of them covered all of the basics. You might be better off looking into getting a book.

mjames — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 03:41:17 +0000

I believe pageresource.com and htmlgoodies.com would be of some help.

actually, client side v. server side

Suzanne — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 03:04:03 +0000

PHP isn't really a replacement for JavaScript. JavaScript is a client side language (runs in the browser), and PHP is still, for all its cleverness, server-side.

They work well together, and you can use both to some degree to do the same things, but they are not interchangable.

Just FYI.

Suzanne

mairving — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 01:11:06 +0000

Harks, there are a lot of good books on the subject. I have one called Javascript for the World Wide Web by Tom Negrino & Dori Smith. It will tell you most everything that you need to know. It can help if you have some programming experience. It is also a pretty good learning tool to see how some other's have developed scripts. Go over to Hotscripts and download some and disect them. This can be pretty informative.

I would personally think javascript is valuable to know but I think that you would be better off learning PHP, if you could only pick one.