Hey Prog

This is my first time on a text board. Anyways, I'm learning PHP, JavaScript and MySQL and I was wondering if you guys had any tips for programming web applications. I am being paid $500 by a friend for making a decent program for their business and I figured this would be the way to go.

Read SICP.

Read a book on webdev.

>>3
How is a slightly dated version of PHP and MySQL for dummies going to do for me?

    Read SICP.

>>4 Here are a few tipps, that I wished I knew at that time:
1. Using any of the above for web development doesn't mean you don't have to know HTML or CSS (when a page is developed try it on validator.w3.org)
2. don't buy a book, it costs and is not that satisfactionary, for PHP, Javascript and MySQL there are plenty of resources online, how-to's, code examples and more... If you can look for a wiki, these are continuasly updated!
3. Is PHP so important? Because if you're on the learning curve, i'll suggest ruby or python. Because they are easier to understand and easier to implement, making it possible to implement top notch programs (optimised and all that)
4. Also consider running a platform to easy thing out (php pear, django or web2py for python or rails for ruby and many more which I haven't tested)

Hope this tipps helped you

Pirate/buy an O'Reilly book on MySQL/PHP/etc. They're good for this sort of thing (yes I'm generalizing a whole publication company). library.nu is a good place to find textbooks, but unfortunately they disabled search for non-registered users recently. There was a similar (Russian?) website, but I forgot what it was called.

I am going to disagree with >>6-san's
2. don't buy a book, it costs and is not that satisfactionary, for PHP, Javascript and MySQL there are plenty of resources online, how-to's, code examples and more... If you can look for a wiki, these are continuasly updated!
Books are usually higher quality than Web sites because they have to be proofread and checked for accuracy and so on. Even the best tutorial websites are often written in a developer's spare time, whereas books constitute a significant portion of that developer's career.
Of course this isn't always the case. For instance developer.mozilla.org has been a better reference to me than any book I've ever read.

A coupla sites to point you in the right direction >>1-san
http://www.ebook3000.com/
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks
http://www.51cnnet.com/