On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:37:42 -0700, Wings wrote...
>
>Does anyone know of a simplified php tutorial resource that just lists legal
>code examples?
>
>For example:
>
>****
>To print to a page:
>echo 'hello world';
>****
>
>Seems like everything I can find gets me bogged down in writing a long
>sample program, teaches mysql, spends two lessons telling me what I need to
>run php, or follows the history of inventing php, etc.
>
>I'm sure I'll need that stuff later, but right now I just want to experiment
>in a hurry.
>
>Thanks in advance.

Lots of the instruction books point to MySQL information, since that is a
popular method for storing and retrieving information. Running an "echo()"
command on a plain string of text is also sort of a waste, since you can simply
do that with HTML, without getting PHP to parse information.

PHP has a lot of applications, but you're basically using it to generate dynamic
content on a web page. Maybe you need to find an application, for something you
can use, and learn how to do it.

Ironically you may find yourself looking for basic SQL commands to learn how to
use the MySQL functions in PHP to store and access information.

Tom
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