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Hey guys, I was browsing Amazon and saw that O'Reilly has a collection of books called "Head First", and three of them are about design patterns and software development. The description looks good, but I'm afraid it's a little too advanced...Do you know this kind of books about design patterns? Are these books good? Are they aimed at advanced users? Thanks.

Yes, I suppose reading the inside of opensource software such as free ecommerce or free webmail applications developed in PHP can help, although I have already had great problems understanding a chat application developed entirely using OOP with MVC. I gave up on that specific application

It seems the MySQL Workbench application is stable now and it looks pretty good. Do some of you use it? Any feedback on this application? Do you prefer another one? Thanks.

Thanks for the comment. I agree with you. Database design and the SQL language are essential. I had not realized it until I read the book "Beginning database design - From novice to professional". PHP/MySQL books are weak on database principles. The next books I read will alternate between PHP-specific language and database-specific readings.

Thanks, it looks good, albeit expensive. Any other suggestion?

Thanks, yeah, I will do it. I have to. I'll learn by doing.

Hello, I have seen a number of recommendations of visual DB modeling applications for Windows, but I'm unsure which to choose. I wish I could download a few of them and try them out but I have a weak Internet connection so I'll have to stick to one specific application, based on your recommendation. I use MySQL and SQLite databases, for your information. I would like to be able to model a database easily, with a toolbar, and then export the SQL code. What do you suggest? I think a good candidate for an article on PHP Freaks is a benchmark of DB-modeling applications Thanks,

LOL... I was gonna ask the same kinda stuff So, I'm going to high-jack this thread I have read two PHP/MySQL books, I know some PHP and SQL language, and I have written down notes, so at this point, I have enough knowledge to do some stuff but I don't know how to start creating my script. I mean, when my script is done, there is going to be tens of files, folders and subfolders, but the question is...Where to start. The example in the books (shopping cart, university, company employees) are clear to understand, but for a brand new project with a white sheet of paper in front, I'm stuck Are there books that help dividing a project into small pieces and getting organized to know which part need to be done this or that way? Thanks!

Thanks! Yes, I have already used in the past, and at least I won't have to search for it on the PHP.net documentation

Thanks, I will try sending the file size, I think it should help the browser determine also remaining download time...

Hello, I am streaming a file using PHP, so that a user of my web site can download a dynamicly-created zipped file. But if the download fails at one point, if you decide to resume it in your web browser, the download starts all over again, instead of resuming where it stopped, like it would do with a regular static file. Is this a bug? Thanks,

Thanks, yes, that's it. I went through your link. There is quite good material out there. PHP is going to be even better

Hi, Many of us use the Zend Optimizer, PHP Accelerator, or the like. Are there plans among the PHP developers (the very PHP application) to have PHP to compile scripts the first time and then to run the compiled code instead of interpreting scripts always? Having this feature by default (like ASP.NET or JSP) would save some resources for heavily-loaded web servers, and would gain a few milliseconds of execution. What do you think?

Yes, let's mark it as "Solved", as I doubt some one could make the snippet shorter at this point

discomatt: Thanks for the link and for the explanation