Many of the DBA’s at Itchy Ninja Software, began their careers as
PHP Programmers, or before… We remember times sitting in a small
office together writing PHP code before there were even books on
the subject! We were scouring the web looking for examples and
such and relying heavy on the documentation at the php.net site!
We wrote custom shopping carts before the days of oscommerce,
zencart, and such. We wrote code to interface with payment
gateways and process credit cards live. We also wrote code to
pull products from MySQL databases, show staff members, and such.
We worked for a newspaper group and were writing news “engines”
to pull the articles, archive data, etc.
Why am I reminiscing about all of that? Well, because frankly, we
have been there. We know a lot of other developers are still
there doing the kind of work that we began with. We know that we
can help others not to make the same mistakes we have seen some
of …
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