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LEARNING PHP FOR BEGINNERS

Josh Butts, one of the organizers of the Austin PHP Meetup teaches classes on PHP. Here is the git repository to his code for his beginning PHP course.

https://github.com/jimbojsb/beginning-php

Breaking into Web Development

I work as an analyst contractor, these days my roles are often a mixture of development and management. I have been asked by a countless number of people what they need to do to get the jobs I’m offered – and it’s simpler than most expect. The market for talented developers in the United Kingdom (and in many talent-lite communities around the world) is such that anyone who merely knows what they are doing has a very good chance of getting a job. Even a job contracting (which ordinarily has senior-level requirements).

To become a web developer with a good salary and employment expectations you need skills. Below I’ll provide a plan to get you towards the top of the largest market: PHP Web Development. Advanced knowledge of everything on this list would immediately make you one of the best, so just strive to have an exposure if not a comprehensive understanding (though the *starred points are essential).

When you have completed projects, you can upload them to github (or anot

Version Control

GIT
SVN

Editors

PHPStorm
Zend Studio
Sublime
VIM
NotePad++

Awesome PHP

A list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.

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	color: #9f6000;
	background-colorL #FEEFB3;
	}
	</style>

	<table>
	<tr>
	<td><div class="warn">Warning condition</div></td>

	Vagrant.configure("2") do \|config\|
	config.vm.box = "precise64"
	config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"




	config.vm.provider :virtualbox do \|v\|
	v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
	end

	Latency Comparison Numbers
	--------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 0.01 ms
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 0.15 ms

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	vbell off
	term xterm-color


	bind = resize =
	bind + resize +1
	bind - resize -5

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	function array_splice_preserve ($input, $offset, $length, $replacement) {
	$keys = array_keys($input);
	$values = array_values($input);
	array_splice($keys, $offset, $length, array_keys($replacement));
	array_splice($values, $offset, $length, array_values($replacement));
	return array_combine($keys, $values);
	};