Hi,

I’ve had many request for access to the videos either on a DVD or in a downloadable format for viewing offline. So after many months of brushing it off, I now have the videos for you … at a small cost:

• $19.99 for the download
• $29.99 for the DVD

The videos are still all available to watch online, but you now have the option to take them home with you. Better yet, I’ve re-rendered the videos in a high quality Quicktime video format.

About the videos:

All together, the collection consist of 47 video tutorials (a few hours of videos) that weights in at 1.67 gigs! The collection now covers:

• Basic PHP
• MySQL and SQL Basics
• Object Oriented PHP

.. and a few of other things related to PHP.

The Videos:

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killerphp.com

Hi,

I just released a podcast that introduces you to the basics of databases. Targeted at total beginners, I look at the three types of databases out there along with some other foundation stuff so that when you get into database driven websites .. you will hit the ground running.

Check it out:

Database basics podcast

For reasons I cannot explain, I’ve placed the podcast/audio session in the killersites.com magazine.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com

Hi,

I’ve finally released my first video on using SQL statements in PHP pages. This is the next step after connecting to a MySQL database.

I hope you find the videos useful.

Stefan Mischook
www.killerphp.com

Many of my articles and videos are based on questions that I see popping up in the php forums or in emails sent to me personally.

Recently I was asked by someone how they could call a function found in one class, in another. This may seem like basic stuff to those of us who know … but please keep in mind, at one time, none of us knew anything!

Anyway, here is my video on using a function from another class in a class.

Hi,

I was chatting with my Java buddies recently and they had just discovered an alternative lightweight framework for building Java based web applications - something called Spring. The Spring framework is equivalent to the Zend Framework or Code Igniter.

I first learned about Spring before it was called Spring, back in 2002 when the inventor of Spring wrote a book (Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development) criticizing how ridiculously heavy Java was becoming.

… I was right there with him! So much so in fact, that I moved into the ultra nimble PHP.

Anyway, since then, the Spring Framework has become one of the major players in the Java world. I’ve been out of the Java world for a while now, but I do check things out once and a while just out of curiosity. Besides, the PHP community can learn a lot from Java … both the good and the bad.

The point of this article:

I checked out the official site for the Spring framework … they use Drupal! For those of you that may not know, Drupal is a PHP based web application.

Nice!

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com