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[Gibsonfirebird]

Hello,

I am a third year computer science student (going to be a junior) and I have a lot of experience with C++, Perl, C, etc. I have a summer job with a company working in the warehouse just doing shipping and receiving and they recently found out that I am a computer science major. They decided that in my off time during work they want me to research their timecard application which is written in PHP with an HTML front. My understanding is that it is very similar to C++ and Perl syntactically and is object oriented.

I just had two quick questions to assimilate myself best with this stuff. Firstly, are there any cheap or online PHP quick guides out there that could be of some help to me? Please keep in mind I've never worked with PHP. I don't yet understand it's interaction with HTML and how it even all works.

Secondly, I was wondering what the best way to look at PHP and test it is. I have access to Vista, XP, Linux, Mac. What's the best way to work with code for PHP?

Any help would be appreciated and again I am sorry for not completely understanding this stuff, but I have no experience and don't have anyone at the company to go to for help.

Thanks.

[WingedPanther]

w3schools.com has a good tutorial.

PHP mainly outputs HTML, so you'll probably want XAMPP or WampServer.

[tossy]

I have came across the source for C++ to PHP PHP PHP vs Other Languages From C/C++ to PHP Tutorial

[hetra]

Yes, w3schools.com has great tutorials on PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.