Archive for April, 2007

Database driven websites article: updated and now in PDF format.

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

A while back I wrote an article for beginners on database driven websites:
‘Database driven websites: what are they and how are they built?’
The article explains the basic concepts behind dynamic websites, with the idea of making learning PHP that much easier. If you’re new to the game (of PHP,) I would strongly suggest that you [...]

Why are PHP books and videos hard for people?

Monday, April 16th, 2007

I’ve read 20+ books on PHP and have watched many videos. One thing that I found consistent about all of them was how they were not ‘friendly’ to non-nerd types.
Why?
Probably because (most of the time,) only hardcore code-monkeys seem to be writing these books. That means either one of two things:

They forget WHAT made [...]

Why Learn PHP?

Monday, April 16th, 2007

One of the two main reasons I put up Killerphp.com is that I believe every web designer should learn PHP. It is a position that (as far as I know) is unique on the Web - no other web-nerds have mentioned it so far.
I suppose I could go on and write about why I believe [...]