Kickstarter

Creator Nate on October 30, 2012

Just a bit confused as the updates are going on the website, will we still be receiving a final PDF copy once it is finished?

Creator helder on October 30, 2012

hi Alan, just a quick post, have you ever thought also on include a chapter for real interaction data with microcontrollers (special he arduino platform)?
more people these days tinkers on dataloggers or some sort of real sensor interaction and what is lagging behind is the web side of it, which everyone one wants but do not know how....the posting results, the interaction program for buttons and sensors, and database publishing... i would love to learn and see this explained here!

Creator Michelle Kaiser on October 5, 2012

I'm really looking forward to this course. I haven't programmed anything since high school (10 years ago) and I'm checking out if this could be a new career direction. Thanks.

Creator Tonjo Swiridoff on October 2, 2012

Hey Alan, Your project is awesome.. Thank for bringing it to live.. =) THUMBS UP !

Creator Zoe Tsang on September 30, 2012

Congrats!

Creator Corey White on September 26, 2012

This sounds awesome! I absolutely agree that all of the tutorials out there about PHP are boring and over-informed with no real world implementation. At least that's how I saw it from a complete n00b perspective. So, I quit. I knew PHP was powerful, but it was just way too daunting to get a grip on it. It was like trying to drive a tank before you know how to drive a car. Hopefully with this project we will all be driving tanks in no time!

I'm happy to support your efforts, Alan. And I look forward to the book.

Thanks!

Creator Richard Parkins on September 20, 2012

i would say for topics, i dont know how beginner you want it to be. but these are good topics:
user handling/session management
how to handle documents and pictures upload, display, manage.
connecting using Databases
Some of the basics like functions, loops, maybe includes and such.
Things like that i think would be handy to cover.

Creator Vampie on September 20, 2012

Congratulations.
You've made.

Now start writing :p

I'm very curious!!!

Creator Nate on September 19, 2012

Glad to see it worked out, hope this will be out just in time to augment some of my in class learning and really delve into the Apache/PHP/MySQL environment.

Creator Augustine Von Freiburg on September 18, 2012

Hey! You made it! Congrats!!!!

Creator Frederik Laursen on September 14, 2012

I am starting to worry.

Creator Ian Burry on September 10, 2012

Not that it will affect me any, but I'd suggest changing some of the funding levels (or adding new ones). $10 to $100 is a fairly large jump.

Creator Emanuel Moura on September 10, 2012

@David Why won't you start a Kickstarter vowing to write a book about this little... passion of yours? It's no place for fanboys. Peace, dude. Go make something productive.

@All the others: Please, don't feed the Trolls.

Creator David Douglas on September 10, 2012

If you're looking for joy in programming, you're barking up the wrong tree. Ruby is a joy. PHP is an ad-hoc piece of junk.

Creator Emanuel Moura on September 8, 2012

@Frederik so you shall feel at home with PHP. As Alan said, it´s fun to use PHP; otherwise, I doubt it´d be so pervasive in web development.

Creator Frederik Laursen on September 8, 2012

@Emanuel

I know abit javascript, jquery and c# aswell. I just dont want to be confused at the start ^^.

Creator Emanuel Moura on September 6, 2012

Alan, would you have something about controlling an Arduino with PHP?

Creator Emanuel Moura on September 5, 2012

Yay! Beyond $1K!

Congratulations, Alan. Less than $1,5k to go and still 25 days from the goal.

Creator Emanuel Moura on September 5, 2012

@Frederik,

IMHO if you're well-acquainted with C-syntax family languages (C, C++, C#, Java Javascript), you're not "new" to PHP; it's tremendously intuitive, given a little bit of background.

However, if you're coming from other branches of the programming tree, Alan's idea is to take you from newbie to advanced. With joy. At least, that's what I understood from his film.

Creator Frederik Laursen on September 5, 2012

Please make it so people new to the PHP can understand it too..

Creator Jason Jamora on September 4, 2012

Will you consider other PHP frameworks Codeigniter and Slim? :)

Thanks!

Creator Luis Francisco Baroni Coutinho on September 4, 2012

Nice project :) Are you considering publishing it in MOBI or EPUB so i can read it on my Kindle in a better way? Thanks!

Creator Emanuel Moura on September 4, 2012

Hi, Alan. For "advanced stuff" I'd like to see a PHP autopilot to control a Raspberry Pi brain of an Unmanned Airborne Solar Vehicle. But that's not inside our scope, so we could study PHP caching and speed optimization. What do you think? :)