Where did you find that?!? I have looked but never could find it. I've heard that it stands for either "Personal Home Page" or some dude's "Hypertext Processor" (can't remember the name).[/high]

PHP today stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"... like GNU stads for "GNU's Not Unix".
It used to be Personal Home Page though when it first started.

hehe
Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP >>> http://lerdorf.com/bio.php

I had already learned Perl (which, incidentally was introduced to me by another well known bulletin board that shall remain nameless) and then I started reading the PHP Manual aswell a tutorials at SitePoint and Devshed, I still haven't bought a PHP book but I consider myself an experienced PHP coder. One of the most important reasons for me to use PHP over Perl was its' vast array of database functions without requiring extra modules and plug-ins.

Anyway, put simply, in my opinion: PHP > Perl. And the best way, in my opinion, to learn PHP is by reading and consulting the PHP Manual, looking at others code and trying to understand it and just keep at it!!

Good luck!
Regards,
Bob Burke (bob@pixel26.net)


p.s. the "Visual Quickstart Guide" books of which your PHP book is one are a good selection of books and the couple I have bought (Perl & CGI for the WWW, Dreamweaver 4) have been excellent. Just my ?0.02

Off topic, but in case any doesn't know this, these acronyms are called recursive acronyms. :)

-Vic

Ahh yes I knew that (really!) I just forgot how you say it. ;) :)

bought a book and the read complete php manual on php.net and the manual on mysql.com yeah but i ain't as good as the people i know..

for my basic knowledge, i got them from here
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/...tw=programming

as for the advanced stuff, i opened up vbulletin and studied it.

Thomas Edison said something to effect of:
1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration