PHP & SQL help

[Octavo]

If you're not using functional programming, you are in the dark ages.

Away with thee, foul warlock! Thy heresies threaten our mortal souls! Take thy functional blasphemy back from whence thou came and bother us good folk no more!

 

[Morrigan]

No. Using PHP is always a bad idea. If it's the only language you know, you should learn something else.

What a bunch of horsecrap.

 

[Rat]

What a bunch of horsecrap.

I have seen the fire
Of a thousand suns pass by
While blasphemers fill the air
Bearing false witness
Now we rise

 

[Unabogie]

What a bunch of horsecrap.

I have seen the fire
Of a thousand suns pass by
While blasphemers fill the air
Bearing false witness
Now we rise

Morrigan is of course correct. There's nothing wrong with PHP. It's not only a very established language, with piles and piles of documentation and code examples that can be found everywhere, but setting up a local PHP environment is as easy as typing "php -S localhost:8000" in your terminal with virtually no configuration.

However, the days of coding SQL statements and parsing results out to HTML markup are pretty much over. Everyone these days is using frameworks like Cake PHP, and the latest one to gain a following is Laravel.

I recommend checking out this tutorial series here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QjzzLVsUJY

And then going to Laracasts.com:

https://laracasts.com/