[ale] asp user learning php?

[john at johnheim.net (John Heim)]

Well, at the risk of committing the sin of not answering the question, 
if it was my friend, I'd tell him to just google it. That's all I did 
when I switched from ASP to php and I'm blind. I would think someone 
with vision would find it even easier to learn by studying examples 
on-line. I don't think finding a book is going to make it any easier, 
just more tedious.

I don't have any advice wrt integrated development environment. I only 
wish I did. I do all my coding in TexpPad, a plain old text editor. But 
I haven't found an IDE that works well with a screen reader. If I had a 
lot of money I'd just keep buying them until I found one that works. 
About 5 years ago, I spent about $100 on 3 different ones and couldn't 
figure any of them out.

On 3/8/2013 7:19 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> I have a friend that does web design using asp that wants to start going
> the open source route.
>
> He specifically asked me about learning php and I have loaned him an
> O?Reilly book that talks about php, MySQL and one other thing as well as
> my Apache book.   I had those but really don?t do web design myself.
>
> Are there any good recommendations for what to look at to get up to
> speed on php if one is used to asp?
>
> Specifically he?d asked me if there is a design environment like that
> for asp so he doesn?t have to do everything in text editors.   Since I?m
> not familiar with asp I?m not sure what environment he is speaking of
> but thought someone on this list might.
>
> I?m not asking for someone to Google for this ? I?m asking people that
> know both ways of doing things what resources they?d recommend.
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