djmirage

Aww, no one for me then, mine is enabled :(. Well, just have to wait until they get available then :). ps; nice gimmick: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04..._keyboards.html macro up the iPad :)

Best way to start in my opinion is by looking at some examples of the goal you are trying to accomplish. It's not bad to "clone" something, just don't copy and paste. By typing you learn more then by pasting. That said, get an editor with decent syntax highlighting, that's notepad++ on windows, textmate on mac. And on all platforms you can use Eclipse PDT (the php variant on Eclipse). So say, you are creating a guestbook (i'd imagine something bigger for your project, but alas), just take a peek at how they are doing it, because you end up just not only learning PHP, but also architecting your application, speaking with databases and the whole bunch of other things around that. (That is assuming you aren't already familiar in such theoretics, if you are you probably will pickup PHP by just doing it :) ).

Just registered on the forums just now. Emailed and signed up at the url as well. Small introduction; Actionscript/Java/PHP/Ruby/Objective-C/C++ programmer, never done much hardware or electronics except for controlling an Ambx lighting set. Pluspoint for me, I wrote an irc bot called Ducky years ago and it's still running. Creativity sparks well, already got 2 concepts going in my head.