Thanks. Yeah, I’d say it’s time to move on from VB 6.0. I was lucky enough to be at a school that let me move on to .net w/ VS 2005 as soon as it was possible.

Everything you could possibly want to begin learning about CakePHP can be found at, or through, the cakephp.org website. In short, it is a PHP framework which takes care of a lot of the more mundane (and some of the not so mundane) tasks associated with creating any web application. This in turn allows you to create the application more rapidly.

I would say yes, it would be something you could use to teach PHP/Database with, though perhaps after teaching a quarter of the year on topics in PHP and a quarter of the year on topics in Database. I would recommend that you only use it for a class of students who have already had a basic web design course, and who have had at least 1 year of programming.

Congrats on the move from teaching. I’m still at it up in Ontario here and we’re going through a lot of php.sql stuff right now. I’m trying to ditch the VB.6.0 to no avail.

I see you are using something called Cakephp? What is that? Could I use it for my students?

Thanks
Doug