PHP tutorial for a perl programmer

[Jamon Camisso]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I've been offered a relatively small PHP contract (outside work 
> project from my boss). Trick is, my background is perl. From the code 
> I've seen for the project it looks fairly straight forward, but there 
> are also a fair number of things I don't recognize.
> 
>   Has anyone seen a php tutorial that would be particularly suited to 
> someone who has a perl background? Rather than "this is what an if/else 
> loop is" one that has more "in perl, you would do this whereas now in 
> php you'd do that...". Thank kind of thing.
> 
>   Failing that, a php tutorial aimed at people who have a programming 
> background of any sort would be great, too.
> 
> Thanks all!
> 
> Madi - who is keen to earn extra holiday moneys :3

I recall seeing a quick perl screen scraper tutorial on O'Reilly somewhere, and 
there are numerous PHP screen scraping tutorials out there. Granted I think both 
rely heavily upon regular expressions, but I'm sure if you were to compare two 
scrapers you'd get a general idea of where to focus your attention to learn PHP.

Not sure if this was the link I saw for perl:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/22/mechanize.html

For PHP, maybe this can help?
http://www.phpit.net/article/screenscrap-rss/2/

Nothing too in depth though...  A start perhaps?


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