Where to Learning PHP (I'll tell you)

**dominion** · 11-13-2004, 07:54 AM

I don't like repleat posts of php tutorials, and where to learn php, so I am creating this thread. Sorry for being 'admin-like', but please post how you learned php and where to learn, a long with php tutorials. There are many ways people started out with learning php, much more than how I begun.

First of all, I went to http://www.php.net/, where I read the manual. I did not read it all, and its changed since before. I read:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro-whatcando.php
Skipped the installation documentation (because it doesn't install on my computer without this complex thing that does work for me).
And since it changed, I read some of this whole section:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/langref.php
For all documentation areas:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/

Oviously this doesn't really get you anyware, but gets you started. Next a good thing to read is this:
http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp
Its a REALLY good refrence, and I refer back to it all the time (but I don't have it bookmarked for some reason).

From here, I searched search engines for php tutorials and sertain things to get me better at php. For example I learned about file stuff, and all the things you can do with them. I searched for more documentation on it, and did a 'project', a rather big one (I called it FX Chat, and it was leaning towards a file bulletin board, but I never went on). From there on, I would learn about something and continue on with it in the same fasion.
The last resource is to go to http://www.php.net and enter something in the "Search For ______ in the [function list]", which is very very usefull, a long with going to forums and asking for other's help.

Hope this helps. Sorry for my spelling.