bcoppola Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 Some years ago I bought a book* on PHP & MySQL with the intention of teaching myself at least the basics. At the time it proved daunting and I gave up. I have never coded before or since. Plus, I had no immediate need to build or maintain a database driven site so there wasn't much to practice on or motivate me. Now that I am using OsCommerce there's a need, and already built pages to work on. I'd like to eventually be able to modify my site, at least a little. What beginner's tutorial(s) and/or book(s) would you recommend for a strictly GUI/WYSIWYG guy in his late 50's? (we greybeards have a harder time learning new stuff, you know.) The Webmonkey tutorial on the Wired site looks good, and I see that MAMP looks promising as a local testing server on my Mac. Hope I don't have to go into the *nix command line to install PHP & MySQL. That was a big stumbling block the first time around. --- *"Build Your Own Database Driven Website using PHP and MySQL" by Kevin Yank, 2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIMBLE Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 w3schools have some good tut's www.w3schools.com Good Luck white beard :-) Nic Sometimes you're the dog and sometimes the lamp post [/url] My Contributions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcoppola Posted April 13, 2011 Author Share Posted April 13, 2011 ^^ Thanks, and learn to respect your elders, sonny! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIMBLE Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 dont know about that, im not too far behind you! Sometimes you're the dog and sometimes the lamp post [/url] My Contributions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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