Help with starting web development.

Question

I am currently learning django, i want to be a freelancer. From what i have gathered that there is not much work in python/django on the internet and i have to get my hands on php. I want advice on what should i do? Please help me get started. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I am speaking from my personal experience here. Take it for what it is worth: one dude's personal experience.

All of the web development freelancing work I have done has been on the standard LAMP stack:

L inux + A pache + M ySQL + P ain... I mean P HP.

I've worked for two web startups. Both use PHP for just about everthing. I know PHP has a bit of a reputation as being ugly, badly-maintained and inconsistent but it is so commonly used that if you want to make yourself really appetizing to an employer, I would really recommend getting setting up your own local XAMP stack and get hacking.

Answer 2

Hi

Depending your skill level, here's a couple of nice resourses for php, mysql and jquery/javascript

Web:

1. All levels: http://www.php.net/ , http://www.mysql.com/

2. Basic: http://www.w3schools.com/ (php, mysql, javascript and more) Intermediate to

3. Advanced: http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/oriented-programming-1, http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/oriented-programming-2 (Bouth javascript)

Books:

1. Advanced: PHP 5 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide

Try a couple of the resources and after that you can pretty much google around for more. After a while i would recomend using a php framework:

http://www.phpframeworks.com/

I have experiance with zend, codeigniter and yii. They are all nice frameforks but im currently in love with the yii-framework

• Happy coding!