I've seen the name David Powers before so I'm assuming he's well respected and a serious knowledge on web design. Thanks for the advice there.
"local bookstore"...lol. It's about a 100 mile round trip for us to get to a bookstore that would have such literature. I'll do that next time I'm in the city though.
I understand what you're saying about PHP and ASP being different but there are quite a few similarities, particularly for low end website functionality.
As we discussed above, includes are very similar, as is connection to a database, repeat regions, if/else/elseif etc...there are similarities and they are helping me understand PHP.
<grasps joystick and sends entire career into a nosedive> :)