I have come from an ASP background, which is pretty much Visual Basic. Always been programming little things in it at work and home. Then moved into database programming on websites, which is using ASP to call SQL to fetch or store items in a database.
I have two web servers, one is Windows based which ASP language is native but can run PHP. The other is a Linux based system which is PHP based, and cant run ASP. windows one has around 10 websites I look after, the Linux one is mainly just to run this forum, its a powerful dedicated server. Well anyway, I have been thinking about getting content on the website form some time, which is in this thread:- http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/r...ss-feeds-fetching-content-other-websites.html
so now decided to use the powerful Linux server and learn PHP to access the MySQL database. I have run some tests, and can do it on the website, and also i have got it running on a test server here for development. I can run PHP on a windows based server which is ideal for testing.
Loads of help files online on PHP, and as I'm converting my ASP code to PHP it should be too bad, so far its been good.
Enjoying it so far, I do like programming, its a sense of control and if something doesn't work there is a logical solution to why. You are creating something that does something and you can give it as much intelligence as you desire.
I have two web servers, one is Windows based which ASP language is native but can run PHP. The other is a Linux based system which is PHP based, and cant run ASP. windows one has around 10 websites I look after, the Linux one is mainly just to run this forum, its a powerful dedicated server. Well anyway, I have been thinking about getting content on the website form some time, which is in this thread:- http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/r...ss-feeds-fetching-content-other-websites.html
so now decided to use the powerful Linux server and learn PHP to access the MySQL database. I have run some tests, and can do it on the website, and also i have got it running on a test server here for development. I can run PHP on a windows based server which is ideal for testing.
Loads of help files online on PHP, and as I'm converting my ASP code to PHP it should be too bad, so far its been good.
Enjoying it so far, I do like programming, its a sense of control and if something doesn't work there is a logical solution to why. You are creating something that does something and you can give it as much intelligence as you desire.
