[TriLUG] PHP

[John Turner]

On Apr 28, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Cate Serino wrote:

> Hi Trilug members,
>
> Let me begin that, I am a instructor and want to prepare my students in
> the best way for the market place.  I have the opprotunity to teach
> either VB.net or PHP.  Any thoughts on either platform.  I know that I  
> am
> speaking to a bias crowd, but please keep you comments to your thoughts
> about the market place.  Meaning do you think that the positions in
> either PHP or vb.net will grow.  Also any recomendations for books for
> PHP.  Any help would be great.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Cate Serino
>

First some links:

Free online/PDF versions of PHP books:
http://www.phptr.com/content/images/013147149X/downloads/ 
013147149X_book.pdf (this is a good book, but maybe not if PHP is your  
first language)
http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/

Some other links:
http://www.onlamp.com/php/


Some simple searches of job sites will return many more VB or Visual  
Basic listings than PHP. That said Oracle and IBM are both supporters  
of PHP and I wouldn't be surprised to see much more in the way of  
Oracle PHP projects. With PHP 5 you have many new features/concepts  
that make it more interesting as a language.

John