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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/8/13 8:19 AM, Lightner, Jeff
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a friend that does web design using
asp that wants to start going the open source route.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">He specifically asked me about learning php
and I have loaned him an O’Reilly book that talks about php,
MySQL and one other thing as well as my Apache book. I had
those but really don’t do web design myself.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are there any good recommendations for what
to look at to get up to speed on php if one is used to asp?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Specifically he’d asked me if there is a
design environment like that for asp so he doesn’t have to do
everything in text editors. Since I’m not familiar with asp
I’m not sure what environment he is speaking of but thought
someone on this list might.<o:p></o:p></p>
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A related tool he may find useful is asp2php which is an offline
converter to translate existing asp pages to php<br>
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Last time I used it was probably 10-12 years ago, and at that time
it did a reasonably good job. At least with the sites I migrated
with it, I remember being impressed by how little I had to fix the
resulting php afterwards. No idea how it's kept up with the
evolution of both languages, but might be something for him to be
aware of<br>
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