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just wanted to say hi
I am new to th PHP world and i figured the best place to get some info would be the lovley forum i hope this place and be of help to me in my journey through learning PHP

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Welcome to the forums.
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Welcome 8)
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Assured99 wrote:i hope this place and be of help to me in my journey through learning PHP
indeed it will...

welcome to the community.
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Thanks for teh quick response.

any one know of any good tutiroal books for beginning PHP?
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Hello :D
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Everybody here seems to rave about O'Reilley books. Grab one of those.
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hewrooooooooooooooooooo!

sams is really neat, if they did a php book?
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The first php book I bought was a sams... it was ok. The MYSQL chapter blew horribly.
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Hello, and welcome to the community. Wrox Press has put out some very good tech books. You may want to look at some of theirs. Sitepoint has also put very, very good books. Specifically Kevin Yank's "Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL". That is one of my favorites for beginners.
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Although I'm sure that Sitepoint's book is great, I don't suggest it simply because it's pretty old and was published long time ago - probably not up to date.
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Click the link, it is their 3rd edition. It has been revised and updated for both 2nd and 3rd editions.
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I just got teh PHP for Dummies and PHP and MYSQL everyday Applications for Dummies i figured that would be a good start, Im highly Proficent in HTML and using dreamweaver so we will see i also just ordered PHP for Dreamweaver 8 so we will see how that turns out
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Weirdan | Please use

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and [syntax="..."] tags where appropriate when posting code. Your post has been edited to reflect how we'd like it posted. Please read:  [url=http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?t=21171]Posting Code in the Forums[/url] to learn how to do it too.[/color]


Time for my first stupid question 
I get this Error : Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\dwmx1\hello.php on line 15

Whats My Problem it seems that ive closed all the brackets correctly, is it something with my test server?

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<body>

<?
	$hello = "Hello World!";
	echo "<p>$hello</p>";
?>

</body>

Weirdan | Please use

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and [syntax="..."] tags where appropriate when posting code. Your post has been edited to reflect how we'd like it posted. Please read:  [url=http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?t=21171]Posting Code in the Forums[/url] to learn how to do it too.[/color]
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Post by Oren »

The only problem with your code that I see is the use of short tags.

Examples of short tags:

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<?
	// Code goes here
?>

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<?=
	// Code goes here
?>
And also ASP tags:

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<%
	// Code goes here
%>
Don't use any of the above... never.

Use only this:

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<?php
	// Code goes here
?>
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