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I suppose I could have posted some code and asked for pointers, oh well ... Such is life.

I am looking for an extension that would inclue an events list and calendar per registereduser on my site, it should allow users to book or register for the given availability. Is there 3rd party plug-in already out there for Joomla 1.6? Or perharps even is there something I could use as a spring board and just write my own code, the reason I ask is that I dont have allot of time for the Joomla learning curve as opposed to the PHP learning curve.

Hi Thorpe, As an actual tool to manage projects it's pretty good and open-source and free. As for PHP code I am not sure what to make of it, it does use an MVC approach and classes, the reason I am asking is that it does not have an integrated forum so I am thinking of coding a plugin for it.

Hi, Well I figured it was one of those obscure things that people would probably never admit to using. I am open to all sorts of new technologies as least new to me. So for now I have opted for Zen Studio 8, I am just learning my way around the IDE, I hope it is as good as it is hyped up to be. I am using Win7, WAMP and ZEN Studio for my dev stack when it comes to PHP.

I am just starting to look at PHP again as a matter of neccesity to write a new project. I chose ProjectPier as a web based tool to manage the project and found it to be in MVC. How do you guys rate it as an example to look at? Thanks Angelo

Hi, Here is what I get once I click on any link from the index.php This webpage is not available The webpage at http://127.0.0.1:41935/wp-login.php might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. Error 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED): Unknown error. It seems to want to redirect everything to 127.0.0.1:41935 Not sure what the problem is, I was looking into the url_rewrites but have not been able to solve this yet. Thanks Angelo

Anybody else using VS PHP, I am liking this product it allows me to work with PHP in an IDE that I know and like. I am thinking of dropping ZENDSTUDIO and using this as my development platform. Anybody else have any experience with it?

Have any of you got Wordpress to work properly under IIS 7.5 ? It is a bit of a segway but still on topic PHP + IIS 7.5 and MYSQL. Any feedback would be appreciated as I have it installed but not working properly. Angelo

Hey folks, Is there any good tutorial on creating and deploying a simple HELLOWORLD type php site/application just to get the mechanics of building and deploying the code base to the webserver? In my case everything is on the same box, I am asking this since I hope some of you use ZendStudio others I guess I could simply use TextPad or UltraEdit if not VS or even Eclipse, just open files and save them so to speak. Any help in getting this first simple task completed would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Angelo

Hello Steve, Welcome aboard.

@Nightslyr , Well it is not so much about feeling bad or conflicted, its more about being practical and investing time and effort for best possible return. Sure as a hobbyist with PHP and C# I can and do have side projects at the very least to keep up with the new technology and the way things move these days. I find open source to be quite rewarding and have made some contributions of my own, but I have also seen people try to pass off code that was clearly lifted from an open source project and claim it as their own. My background is mostly mid-range platforms with their own proprietary languages and the proverbial COBOL as well as other associated languages. I am certainly not worried about learning a language just worried about investing time into something that will be obsolete in one or two years. So I lean towards PHP cause even though several years have passed since I first looked at a php script or page at least I can still recognize the thing, now that does not mean I would not need to look at JSON and AJAX and whatever flavor of the month is out there for partial postbacks and seperation of logic into tiers. I like a N-Tier approach, segregate the presentation, business logic and database engine. But allot of those points are valid for a deeper rabbit hole. Angelo

@Maq - Thank you very much for the warm welcome, much appreciated. @cssfreakie - I have seen that game before, it is really a self feeding industry that certification game. If one can memorize enough or even cheat one can get a certificate and then get in the door if you will. But the proof is always in the pudding isn't it. I do have one more question though, ZenStudio as an IDE is that something I would encounter in a real world PHP shop? So is a ZEND certificate strictly worth its weight when applied to PHP from a ZendStudio perspective or is it also valid for shops that might use a different IDE as long as the language is PHP? Thanks Angelo www.angeloabruzzese.com

The OP's form is correct also. See here I just like to see fully qualified and expanded code, I am not one for shortform even if it is accepted. Add these lines to the beginning of your script and tell us the error ini_set ("display_errors", "1"); error_reporting(E_ALL);

Isn't it amazing what we can do when we really want to?

Hey, Welcome and have fun...

A typical loop: $a = 1; $b = 99 while ($a <= $b): echo $a; $a++; endwhile; You don't seem to have an endwhile statement in your loop. I would suggest doing a little reading on the web. ie: google --- While Loops in PHP and you will find 10000 examples if not more. Angelo

Sorry but I could not help but notice that some dude took off his shoes in the training session. Man, I hope he did not have a serious case of athletes foot. As for the site, I just opened it up in IE 7 and it worked fine.

Hello Folks, Well I was sitting on the fence between the .net and php worlds, I have been in the IT field since 84 and lets just say I have worked on enough platforms to make me dizzy. Now that being said, I moved away from PHP and to some extent ASP at the time when things just started to move too fast for my taste, I have been on midrange platforms for what feels like an eternity now and have seen enough negative reactions by the new generation to last me a life time. The last time I got involved with PHP was when I installed Moodle on a windows box and was looking to impliment a few ideas but I had to drop that as it became too much of a logistics nightmare. So here I am now, I am going to be looking for a job again soon and wanted to turn back to WEB development and I actually prefer PHP to C# and .NET (now does that mean one cannot live without the other?). Is there really such a black and white dividing line between those two worlds? I have seen mostly Microsoft as the front end, IIS and or Websphere on Unix with Windows Web Servers and a Midrange Backend. Now is getting a Zend or other PHP certificate really worth it as a goal to help in shifting my career goals? I am currently working on putting together my own WP CV site and using that as a basis to start up again. It is running along side IIS and MSSQL so on my one single box, I have VS2008, VS2010, MSSQL 2005, MYSQL , ECLIPSE and ZEND Studio. Talk about major personality conflicts. Angelo

Well Howdy, I am new here as well, not totally new to PHP and MYSQL but lets just say I am returning form a long long time spent away from it. So helping others is a nice way (at times) to get back in the groove. Take Care Angelo