{"id":250,"date":"2013-10-16T11:46:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.finchproservices.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T07:08:44","slug":"code-academy-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n8finch2024.local\/code-academy-php\/","title":{"rendered":"Code Academy: PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like a peaceful meadow after a trek through dense jungle, or the eye of a hurricane, PHP was a welcome relief, a lot more intuitive, and pretty fun.<\/p>\n

The Basics on PHP<\/h2>\n

PHP is a server side language, and is the “P” in the LAMP environments that run a good deal of the internet (not general dinner table conversation, I know). As I understand it, PHP allows your site to interact with the server and be more dynamic (e.g. Mobile friendly and responsive sites are made so with PHP).<\/p>\n

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I was very excited to learn PHP for three main reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. WordPress sites are built mostly using HTML, CSS, and PHP. Finally, I’m moving on to the right lanugage!<\/li>\n
  2. PHP has many other applications outside of WordPress, especially with SaaS web applications, something else I wanted to explore.<\/li>\n
  3. It wasn’t JavaScript!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    By the time I had started learning about PHP, I was well into setting up a site for a client that was using the Genesis Framework, and was heavy on the PHP side of things. I had been communication with the developers of the theme, and they were supplying me with some of the PHP code I needed (they were SO helpful). However, I tried to edit a piece of the code by myself toward the end of it all, and…<\/p>\n

    Crash, broken, locked out of the site!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    I had been very brash and not set up an FTP connection (actually, I didn’t know I could do that at the time). Thankfully, I had several backups of the site, but lost several hours of work.<\/p>\n

    Lesson learned.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Estimated hours of learning and practice for PHP: 14<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

    Estimated value of learning from crashing a site, and having to redo three hours of work: priceless<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

    CodeAcademy offers courses on Python and Ruby and has many other resources like Web Projects and API projects. After 60 days, and finishing the learning I needed, I moved on to other things…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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