Server Side Web Scripting

I will be offering tips and tricks to anybody who wishes to learn how to build their own websites. I have spent over 20 years writing procedural php. In my current day job, I write Oracle PLSQL - which is also procedural. While I have written VB.net and C++ through the years, I prefer the procedural method of php vs object oriented. 

My tutorials will ultimately be 90% procedural based. If you would like to learn to write procedural php, or just sharpen your query writing skills, please read some of my tutorials as I feel that they may be beneficial.

Through the years, I have spent time using/modding open source scripts for clients and have discovered one common issue is that the queries could be better written, a lot of times, to fetch all the data in one query vs writing several queries to fetch data. For performance reasons, I feel that this is better than opening the connection to the db multiple times. 

For years, I have used Microsoft Access and Word (mail merge) to create invoices, letters, etc. I will include tutorials on how to convert these Access databases and vba into php and MySQL. We will also convert the Word Docs into html so that the mail merge will continue to work. 

I will begin putting content on the site in the coming days.