PHP Tutorial

I’ve finally posted something I’ve been meaning to do for quite a while, a quick PHP tutorial for Processing programmers. This probably should have been a chapter in Learning Processing, but hey, if it had made it in, then I wouldn’t be able to just put it online for free.

Tutorial: http://www.learningprocessing.com/tutorials/php/

There’s an example towards the end of the tutorial that demonstrates how to use PHP to save data to a server from a Processing sketch/applet. This could be particularly useful for a high score list, etc.

Persistence: http://www.learningprocessing.com/tutorials/php/php-persistence/

Oh, and while I’m at it, I’ve got three new examples up on the Processing site:

Learning Processing updates

I’ve been working on finishing up the book’s web site www.learningprocessing.com. I’ve added some new tutorials, fixed up some of the examples, and slowly but surely am getting more exercise answers online.

Daniel Shiffman's Learning Processing  Daniel Shiffman's Learning Processing

In addition, there have been some nice write-ups about the book online, most recently a very fair and accurate review that outlines some of the book’s strengths and weaknesses by Douglas Edric Stanley.