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Re:I have a great idea for a webapp, but hardly any programm... by henning on Monday September 24, 2007 @02:16PM (#58989)
Even though getting started with PHP and MySQL is easy, please avoid the temptation as it will brain-damage you in ways that will take a long time to recover from.
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Re:I have a great idea for a webapp, but hardly any programm... by SwellJoe on Monday September 24, 2007 @06:53PM (#59137)
I tend to agree with this (PHP is perhaps my least favorite language outside of C#/Java).

But there is some really good PHP code out there. The problem is finding it--particularly for a non-programmer. DokuWiki is very nice. Flyspray aint even half bad. Wordpress, while extraordinarily popular, is a bit painful to look at...it's getting better, but it's not ideal to learn from (I'm not knocking Wordpress...I use it for two blogs and recommend it to everyone who asks about blogging software). The majority of Joomla is downright scary bad--I feel dumber every day that I spend working with it.

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