[Tenacious]

Besides W3's site, Im looking for some places to pick up both where I have a limited knowledge of xhtml and none of PHP.

I do have programming experience in C/C++ but thats not really relevant

[bluedog]

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor - the documentation is really great for each command

Since you already have programming experience, reviewing other PHP applications provides insight into how the language can be applied.

I often look at projects on the opensource site freshmeat.net: Welcome to freshmeat.net and limit the scope to the PHP language and find one I like. Then I review the code for how they approached the project.

[Tenacious]

Thanx bluedog thats a good idea. So far php kinda grosses me out; probably because of how flexible variables are compared to C.

I've found myself what seems to be a good book PHP 5 for dummies.

[hyteckit]

Originally Posted by Tenacious 

Thanx bluedog thats a good idea. So far php kinda grosses me out; probably because of how flexible variables are compared to C.

I've found myself what seems to be a good book PHP 5 for dummies.

That's why I like PHP. You don't have to declare a variable and define the type. You just use it.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

That's why I like PHP. You don't have to declare a variable and define the type. You just use it.

I live and breath PHP, but I find that this is a virtue and a problem. It's a problem because when you are looking at other people's code, it can be very confusing how variables just sort of appear randomly without being declared, how they can change type, be recycled, etc. You can be clear with your variable usage in PHP and of course comment where necessary, but you aren't forced to. This is both good and bad. With great power comes great responsibility, or something like that...

[Chuckit]

I find the loose typing in PHP to be a silly hassle. There aren't a whole lot of cool tricks you can do with it, but it can still bite you in the tush. In a message-passing language like Ruby or Objective-C, however, untyped variables are a thing of beauty and the source of much awesomeness.