NYCPHP Meetup

[chris feldmann]

The NYPHP pages seem to point me here with any questions on the courses, so 
if anyone can help I'd appreciate it. Essentially I'm trying to figure out 
which course I should take, leaning towards the two-day "programmers track" 
as opposed to leaping right into one of the intensive 2-hour RAMP courses (
e.g. the February course on OOP in PHP). 

To this point, totally self-taught (with the help of some of the authors who 
frequent this very list), I've used php mainly as "glue" to automate, say, 
photo galleries and for mail forms and the like. I've written a few sites 
that included database abstraction layers to interact with small MySQL 
databases - I'm pretty comfortable with SQL, but I am having trouble getting 
a useful grasp on Classes and object-oriented php in general (I wasn't a CS 
major). I would say my comfortable vocabulary of built-in functions is 
rudimentary - I always need a reference open. On the other hand, I run my 
own linux webserver and have been using linux as my desktop for almost a 
decade and until gmail made it painfully obsolete, my main (web) email 
client was a php app I wrote.

My worry is that the two-day course is going to be too basic, though, like 
"Now we're going to write our first F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N." Can anyone give me a 
sense of the level of the course? I don't have a generous employer to pay my 
tuition; it will be coming out of my own pocket, so I want to make sure I'm 
not taking the wrong course. I do feel that I've kind of run into a wall in 
my auto-didactical regimen and could be well served by merely _talking_ with 
other people who use these tools. Lately I've set my php books aside in 
frustration, distracting myself by writing greasemonkey scripts. If it's a 
useful bit of info, web programming/designing is not my day job (yet), 
though I do make some money doing it. 

Thanks,
Chris
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