Java and PHP

Well my friend is working pretty hard on learning Java and I want to join him. He has been using it for years and now wants to get ceritified with OCA SE7. That is something I would want as well. In fact, I want that a great deal. That is why I will merge my studies of PHP with Java for the time being and work towards getting certifications in both languages. Albeit, the issue of time is especially sensitive right now. I will need to give everything I have to working on this. I don't necessarily have to push myself to get the certifications right away. My plan is to work with my friend on the Java studies and also learn about PHP on the side.

Update

While learning about the PHP CLI, I began to wonder what exactly I could do with it. PHP has been used almost exclusively for web development. If there are uses for it besides that, I would be curious about it. Here are some articles from the php.net manual and some published materials from different sites on that.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-command/

Update 12-17-2012

Here are the things I learned and were intriguing from PHP materials.

• ^ the symbol for either or. It's pretty underused, I find.
• $1 .= "string" concatenates "string" with the previous value of $1.
• Types of loops: while, do-while, for, foreach, continue, break

Here are some good videos on youtube. Here

I was trying to figure out how to use the CLI available after version PHP 4.3.0. Since I have an Ubuntu setup on my laptop, I'll just use that for my testing purposes. The one extra installation I need to run CLI commands is the php-cli package. It's pretty straight forward. After that all I have to do to run scripts is to type in "php /path/script.php" and it will run script.php.

I realize that this is not a lot of progress in a span of two weeks. I need to quicken the pace of my updates and stay focused on this.

Update: 12-04-2012

It's been kind of hectic lately. I've gone through the first part of the PHP study guide provided by zend. I'm not even close to finishing what I set out to do in the 1st benchmark. There are other priorities as well that I have to worry about. The 70-680 Microsoft certification might be respectable, so I will keep going through the material. Being knowledgeable about the most popular OS in the world doesn't hurt.