The Fate of Tyrlon and other Dubious Things

I have decided to learn PHP and MySQL so that I can make better web pages, especially for that web-focused project that I am currently working on off and on.  So far, PHP has turned out to be pretty simple and easy to learn.  If you are already a programmer (I am) and know other procedural languages, PHP is just a subset of that.  It uses standard If(then) type controls, as well as ending each line with a semi-colon like Java and C# do so that makes it nice and familiar for me.

PHP also has a lot of really nice built-in functions that you can call to get information, such as the User’s IP address or what browser they are using.  I’m also learning about setting and retrieving cookies and using forms to send feedback e-mails.  If you want to check on my progress as I play around with php, you will see various pages popping up on the test domain for my friend and I’s company: http://www.phoenixtestdomain.com/   Currently the only page i’ve been playing with is hello.php which had a feedback e-mail form on it being redirected to a PHP catcher but I disabled it so the spammers wouldn’t find it and send me lots of “interesting” e-mail!

I’ll try and keep everyone informed as I learn more about PHP, MySQL, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

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