OK here's a newbie - have at it!

[joomlavideos]

I have been designing for print and web for over 15 years and have now decided to fully and seriously learn php and mysql.

 

I have found numerous sources to start delving into it, including this site's videos (good job Stefan!).

 

My problem is getting past the initial installation of the programs on my MacBook Pro (Intel).

 

I installed MAMP months ago so I could use Joomla and WordPRess locally. No problem, works like a charm. However, the books I am trying to learn from recommend installing the programs via the old way so it runs on the Apache in the usr/sites folder.

 

I installed both with no issues - but when running the simple phpinfo() to test, I get a 403 Forbidden error.

 

Also, another book is recommending I access the db through Terminal, which I have tried but with no results. I am completely lost in Terminal as I know nothing about it and the commands I run do not get the same results as the book says.

 

I completely believe in learning to access the db this way before relying upon the GUI interface like you see in PHP admin.

 

Any way, can anyone recommend anything?

[jlhaslip]

for the DB stuff, try phpmyadmin or the mysql admin module (I forget its name)