On Nov 29, 2004, at 5:49 AM, Evan Prodromou wrote:
On Mon, 2004-29-11 at 13:36 +0000, Minty wrote:
"Learning PHP by example, with MediaWiki"
/me spits out his coffee
Think of the children... won't anybody think of the children?!
In all seriousness, MediaWiki is not the prettiest or best PHP codebase I've seen. It's also far from the worst, but this is small consolation if you've ever lurked in comp.lang.php and seen the horrors people post there. ;)
The web is full of PHP tutorials. There might even be some good ones out there. The best way to get into PHP in my experience is to just dive in.
The online manual at www.php.net is generally easy to search (at lest for functions -- it can be harder to look up things like constants or unusual keywords). The language itself will be pretty familiar to someone who's dabbled in C-like languages or Perl. There are gotchas (as there are in any language) which you're either going to stumble or on someone more experienced is going to point out to you.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)