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Originally Posted by ecchi

Its not hard or time consuming. I started learning Perl by reading 'Perl For Dummies', and wrote my first useful program within a few hours of opening the book (still use that program occasionally too). I have since advanced beyond 'Perl For Dummies', but it teaches you enough for most basic jobs. I'm told the same is true for PHP, but although I bought a book, I have not got round to reading it (because I can now do everything I need to do in Perl, so why bother with PHP, particularly as PHP is slower).

Isn't there a rule that PHP scripters aren't allowed to read any books
or take any classes?

I got a copy of PHP For Dummies for an employee to read. He never
read it, of course, but every so often when I look at PHP code I flip it
open and verify that indeed the obvious errors that seem to be in every
bit of PHP would have been avoided had the "programmer" bothered to
spend a few hours reading "PHP For Dummies" before writing and selling
their script.