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zoocoregraphics	20 Mar, 2008 - 10:15 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 20 Mar, 2008 Posts: 6	I'm a web designer and I'm interested in getting into the programming aspect of Web Development. I've been told by numerous people that PHP is a good language to work with and start with. My only question is, whether or not I need prior programming experience or knowledge to begin PHP. If so, where should I start? Is there a more basic programming language that would give me a foundation or can I just jump into PHP as a beginner in web programming? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jarod
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_net	RE: Beginning PHP 20 Mar, 2008 - 11:53 PM Post #2
D.I.C Head Joined: 22 Sep, 2007 Posts: 146 My Contributions	No there is no prior knowledge required to learn pnp. Its one of the tough scripting languages, take a look three threads below this the same question has been already asked, many times.
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Mikhail	RE: Beginning PHP 21 Mar, 2008 - 10:28 AM Post #3
D.I.C Addict Joined: 26 Oct, 2007 Posts: 980 Thanked: 1 times Dream Kudos: 250 My Contributions	No you do not need any previous programming experience, look for some tutorials on the internet there are a lot, also buy a book on PHP and MySQL.
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spearfish	RE: Beginning PHP 21 Mar, 2008 - 10:49 AM Post #4
Monkey in Training Joined: 10 Mar, 2008 Posts: 746 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 225 My Contributions	You also need to have a server with PHP installed on it. But that's pretty much standard with Linux hosting.
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Mikhail	RE: Beginning PHP 21 Mar, 2008 - 10:25 PM Post #5
D.I.C Addict Joined: 26 Oct, 2007 Posts: 980 Thanked: 1 times Dream Kudos: 250 My Contributions	Also you can practice and create application prototypes using LAMP or WAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP or Windows Apache MySQL PHP. You can do this locally but you have to download and install Apache Server,MySQL and PHP
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wd7.rodrigo	RE: Beginning PHP 25 Mar, 2008 - 06:18 AM Post #6
New D.I.C Head Joined: 24 Mar, 2008 Posts: 6 My Contributions	QUOTE(Mikhail @ 21 Mar, 2008 - 11:25 PM) Also you can practice and create application prototypes using LAMP or WAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP or Windows Apache MySQL PHP. You can do this locally but you have to download and install Apache Server,MySQL and PHP For windows i recommend WAMP Server, is a switch width PHP5,MySQL5,PHP My Admin, Apache 2 and others.. i use it PHP is a very easy language to start, i recommend than you look for logic programming first . This post has been edited by wd7.rodrigo: 25 Mar, 2008 - 06:19 AM
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_net	RE: Beginning PHP 25 Mar, 2008 - 09:44 AM Post #7
D.I.C Head Joined: 22 Sep, 2007 Posts: 146 My Contributions	I actually use xampp for my windows partition. Its very nice, I've tried lampp and wampp and on windows I found xampp best suitable for me. Its not the greatest for production though. Xampp comes with ftp + mercury mail, perl and a lot of other stuff.
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ahmad_511	RE: Beginning PHP 25 Mar, 2008 - 09:52 AM Post #8
D.I.C Regular Joined: 28 Apr, 2007 Posts: 351 Thanked: 8 times Dream Kudos: 400 My Contributions	If you're a Windows user you can install IIS and configur it with PHP and MySQL Here is a tutorial about that
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