PHP is my preferred language. It is simple to use and easy to interface with SQL. Wrote a PHP generator (similar to Rails) years ago that makes RAD much easier.
Good to have a local PHP SIG. Experience sharing may be as valuable as asking questions. I would like to see sections on the website for book reviews, and a blog for sharing ideas and personal experiences on-line. In the meeting you asked about favorite functions -- it would be nice to have short blogs about favorite functions with examples, things learned from experience from the use of these functions, and their status. Is this function new or does is replace a deprecated function. Even examples of how things are done procedurally, and the advantage (if any) of doing it with "class." A database of code samples for our local group would be great -- something similar to code.google.com Even parallel examples of how to do it with PHP compared with other languages, i.e., PERL, Java, Ruby, or C++. Examples of how, when and why to incorporate AJAX would be helpful to many programmers. All of these things would be easy to set-up, and there is a need for them.
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