RE: The Future

["Tom Deskevich" <thomas.l.deskevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In our company, if you get training approved, you 'pay them back' with your 
service there.
In other words, if you go to PHP school, and then turn around in a month and 
get a job programming in PHP somewhere else, you owe the company back most 
of the cost they invested in you for training. But if you stay around for 3 
years, you owe them nothing.  I personally think that is fair.

I am going to down load BCD's web smart trial and test it out. I am not 
trying to promote the product, but the nice thing about it from my research 
is that it will create a shell for using using PHP. You can then look at the 
code and see what gets created.  You need Zendserver, which I need to get 
permission to get loaded on our production box.  The code is stand alone, it 
does not require BCD to make the application run.  But you can use their 
program to modify the application graphically and it will create the code 
for you.

And so far it is all free.

Don't know if it would be a problem for you to load zendserver or not. Even 
if you do not have any time at work and want to work at home, you could 
develop PHP if you can remote into your PC.

If you know nothing about SQL, see if you can do a STRQM.  The interface is 
similar to STRQRY option 1.  Create something there that extracts 
information from a file. If you press F18, Display SQL, you can see the SQL 
behind the selection. I know I learn better by seeing the results and how 
they were obtained.

I wish you well,  Kelley, even having a DESIRE to expand your horizons is a 
big step.

Tom Deskevich