Recommend a PHP course in Dublin

Hi
A friend of mine wants to develop a site and wants to do it himself.
He has some exposure to HTML and used to do cobol in College,
He did his final project in it so he's competent just out of practice at the moment.

I have suggested PHP to him as it should be easy enough to pickup and is easily integratible with his knowledge of HTML and programming structures.
Along with that he will be working with forum and blog software written on PHP.

Anywho....
Do you know of any good PHP courses that he can sign up for.
He wants tutored course rather than a book / online.

Let me know, if you have approx costs that would be great too.


p.s. I could google it but I'm mainly looking for a Recommendation / Experience

PHP is easy. He doesn't need a course.

This book will get him well on his way to creating professional websites -

http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Development-Developers-Library/dp/0672326728

I used it when I got promoted from Software Tester to Developer (first edition of the book, years ago.) Had about a week to learn PHP. Worked a charm.

Very easy to read, enjoyable and full of good stuff.

PHP is easy.
i know....

He doesn't need a course.
He want's a couse....


As above

He wants tutored course rather than a book / online.

Most good developers could always read the following:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php

Then they could do some exercises to learn PHP and give him a course for say 2000 to 3000 euro for a week. Would that be sufficiently expensive for him?

DIY and you'll learn much more.

Ok I'll pass on yer advice thanks,

I'm a DIY person myself but some people do think they have to spend to learn....why else would Trinity exist

You can tell him I'll teach him how to do his website for €€€

PM me if interested!

he doesn't even need to learn php - there are loads of good and mostly free php create-your-own-website content management packages with good templates such as:

phpwebsite
joomla
mambo

The trick is to find a company that knows what they are at with regard to php hosting and security. I found a great one in Arizona that I have used for a few years now, will be glad to pass on details if relevant.

best wishes

Imogen

thebiz said:

Ok I'll pass on yer advice thanks,

I'm a DIY person myself but some people do think they have to spend to learn....why else would Trinity exist

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In my experience, specific Software Languages are thought to yourself (unless you work for a large corporate with money to burn). The function of University is to teach the core Software Engineering concepts and System fundamentals not specifc languages (although they have to teach some to achieve this).

I'm not aware of a PHP course in Ireland , and even if there is one and he did it, it would probably be extremelly expensive (€2000 for a week long intensive corporate course) and teach him about 10% of what is needed. The best he'd get out of it is that PHP is installed by default on most Apache webservers and all docs etc. are at www.php.net. PHP (in it's basic form) is a pretty simple scripting language that will very quickly allow a developer to throw together (rather than engineer) websites. Of course, with experience sites can be properly engineered with PHP.

As stated in a previous mail, a CMS is prob the best way to go nowadays, such as Mambo or Joombla. This is only something you'd know through experience and a PHP course would not teach this either.

Slog it out with the docs and try it is the best he can do really.