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Thanks for all the help guys, appreciate it.

One last question - best resources for learning? I've got some books and some websites, any other recommendations?
 
Aside from official documentation ala w3cschools, php.net etc

Tizag taught me php and I use it as reference guide.
 
Always found doing is better than reading especially books. Find some tutorials, think of some things you'd like to do and try it. Good one is try and make a simple CMS.

Just functions like login/logout/add post/edit post/delete post/different user levels/user profiles/comments/pictures/admin panel. Covers a good amount of stuff :)
 
I've just read through the tutorial for php on Tizag which was great, php is very nice. I now have some ideas of what to do with it and I will start out by creating something for my girlfriends website. :)
 
Guys - what framework do you commonly use for PHP in your roles? Thanks.
 
The only one that I have used recently has been zend but I only dipped my toe in and ended up going back and creating my own framework.

Try doing as someone above said, create your own site that makes you learn loads of different things.
 
msm722 said:
Guys - what framework do you commonly use for PHP in your roles? Thanks.
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Have used the zend framework a couple of times, didn't really do anything major in it and feel i only touched the surface of what it can do. Learning how to use it fully is on my list of things to do, as a lot of jobs lately seem to be mentioning this framework in their requirements.
 
Personally I dislike CakePHP. It claims to be using the MVC pattern, but is far from it. A lot of CakePHP seems to be quick bodges to fix problems, rather than properly implemented patterns. It may well get the job done just fine, but I dislike it claiming to be using MVC.

I use a harvested framework for PHP (or rather, did) but now am using Seaside for Smalltalk. :)
 
Web developer can mean a different thing for each company. I would guess php/mysql would be required. Knowledge of asp.net would be a plus sometimes l guess. Good .html and .css knowledge is nice but in my company the web designer (me) is responsible for providing the html and css for the developer to work with.
 
theforce said:
Web developer can mean a different thing for each company. I would guess php/mysql would be required. Knowledge of asp.net would be a plus sometimes l guess. Good .html and .css knowledge is nice but in my company the web designer (me) is responsible for providing the html and css for the developer to work with.
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Where I used to work I had to do design and development, but in my new job (a slightly bigger company) the designer does the design and I work from the psd and do everything else - which is the way I prefer it as I'm not the best at design, prefer making stuff work :)
 
suarve said:
Where I used to work I had to do design and development, but in my new job (a slightly bigger company) the designer does the design and I work from the psd and do everything else - which is the way I prefer it as I'm not the best at design, prefer making stuff work :)
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I used to only make the design in photoshop as well. I now also provide the .html and .css files since it renders the developer unable to mess stuff up and complaining to me that the design is too complex.

There are enough things a web developer should worry about without having to worry about converting the .psd file to .html and creating the tedious amout of .css required to create the website the pesky designer decided to use :)
 
theforce said:
Web developer can mean a different thing for each company. I would guess php/mysql would be required. Knowledge of asp.net would be a plus sometimes l guess. Good .html and .css knowledge is nice but in my company the web designer (me) is responsible for providing the html and css for the developer to work with.
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As you say depends where you work. We use JSP/Java running a CMS on Tomcat. I only use PHP/MySQL outside work.
 
Web Developer can mean so many different things to different companies depending on size.

If its small company they would probably have 1/2 person doing:

Front End (XHTML/CSS/JavaScript)
Back End (PHP/MySQL or equivalent)
Website Layout Design (Photoshop / Fireworks / Illustrator)
Marketing (SEO / Newsletter / Google Adwords / Analytics / Viral)
Update and Maintenance (News, Articles, Events, Bug Fix, Buy/Renew Domain)


I'm mostly do Front End Web Development + Design with Squiz MySource Matrix CMS, XHTML / CSS and JavaScript (Jquery).
 
nolimit - I can pretty much do most of that with the exception of php and javascript, which is what I am currently learning.

Regarding the frameworks - do companies expect you to be familiar with any of them? I'm playing with codeigniter at the moment which I understand to be good for MVC?
 
I forgot to mention in terms of payment, I think for Junior position 18k - 22k is very realistic.
When you get 2-3 year experience I think 25-30k is very reachable for mid to more senoir position.
 
20-22k is something I'd be willing to go to from my current salary, even if it's a large pay cut.
 
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