Since I'm going to be using blogging software in the near future I was wondering if people had any web or book based references about PHP?
I have been a OLD mainframe programmer for like 17+ yrs and have been doing web for the last 3+ yrs and can program fairly well. It's the syntax and the best practices that might be helpful besides some general basics.
Here's an incomplete guide to the general layout for a PHP web application. Other than that, php.net is the best resource I've found.
I've done a couple small projects using the Zend Framework. It was the best I've used for PHP, but some things (persistence API, lack of authentication) left a bad taste in my mouth. I just tried out Django (Python) over the weekend and it blew me away. Fantastic framework...so far.
Thanks, for the information I will give it a look in a day or so when I have the time. I will he to spend some time looking over the framework part since I really have not used them much except for with .NET a few years back.