Absolute Newbie

[ldavis]

Hi,
I suppose that this is the place to intro myself.  First.  I am a newbie to Apache 2 and PHP 5, thought it was time to learn this.....so here I am.  When I say absolute newbie....I mean absolute newbie I have very little programming experience, but I wanted to learn more about PHP.

Other than that....not much to tell.

kind regards,
Ldavis

[coral1]

Welcome aboard.  : )

What have you been doing to make you want to learn programming?

[VGR]

have you lost your mind in a car accident ? :D

[COBOLdinosaur]

Just so you understand that learning PHP will expose you to probably mental illness and you might become as nuts as the rest of us. ;^)

[VGR]

yes 8-)
this said, from what I've seen in the ASP section, it's a lot more mentally insane to try writing a website in ASP/VBS ;-))

[rdivilbiss]

Welcome aboard.  FWIW, PHP 5 is not available on a lot of web hosts, yet, so watch the documentation when you code if you choose a 4.x.x host.  The latest release, 5.2.1 seems to be pretty stable and maybe we will see more hosts moving to 5.  There was a fork in the code and PHP just released 4.4.6 (after 5.2.1).

PHP 5 added some great ideas, but unfortunately the bug list was huge, http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php  it broke some 4.x.x code.  So a lot of ISPs have been slow to move to 5.x.x for fear of breaking customer sites.

I hope my ISP will offer 5 soon.