PHP Developer Career?

evilsee

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I did a few projects in PHP about 6-7 years ago. When I started looking for other work very few companies were looking for php developers, they just wanted something related to MS. Now there are plenty of oppertunities for php developers.

If you follow some of the advice given by other people and get to learn a few frameworks, coding standards etc. you will have a solid platform to have a career in development.

yeah I agree totally. Years ago when everyone was running desktop apps and the internet was burgeoning technology MS had a strong foothold, this is and will loosen over time. Because of this a lot of development was done with MS technology and IT managers and the like were sticking with MS (as it was all they knew) and not considering alternatives. With the development and growth of web applications, this is changing. I would say PHP is growing and growing strong. Stick with it you will always be able to find work once you have some experience.

Although I must just point out, most of the time .Net and Java guys get paid more :/
 

Isengard

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Some interesting suggestions and I'll definitely take a look at them all, I'd rather be over prepared than under prepared.

After about a week now of learning PHP I've finally got enough knowledge to make my first very simple script. It's a 5 question multiple choice script that checks the answers and highlights them according to whether you answered them correctly or incorrectly. Also (I know, I'm a n00b) after much brain scratching I finally figured out how to make a script that displays how many of the answers you got correct.

If you want you can have a look at it here. :)

Note: The radio buttons come out a little weird in Opera 10.10, but works perfectly in Chrome, Firefox and IE8.
 

vangend

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Some interesting suggestions and I'll definitely take a look at them all, I'd rather be over prepared than under prepared.

After about a week now of learning PHP I've finally got enough knowledge to make my first very simple script. It's a 5 question multiple choice script that checks the answers and highlights them according to whether you answered them correctly or incorrectly. Also (I know, I'm a n00b) after much brain scratching I finally figured out how to make a script that displays how many of the answers you got correct.

If you want you can have a look at it here. :)

Note: The radio buttons come out a little weird in Opera 10.10, but works perfectly in Chrome, Firefox and IE8.

It is a start in the right direction. Keep it up ! Get to know how to use PHP with MySQL etc. Try doing a simple content managment system using a db and take it to more advanced features as you start to understand more of php.
 

greggpb

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hahahaha lol@ acid.. programming will always be around it just it is becoming more public domain so we can't charge the fortune we used to unless you specialise. top of the game = top of the cash.. its easy just be smarter that everyone else. ;)
 
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