Thread: Trying to start to learn PHP - need help

Hey,

I am trying to learn PHP properly, so if possible, could someone please post some guides regarding this matter? As it would be very helpful!

The site I started learning from is:
http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/wi...l/default.aspx

Other than that I mostly learned from odd tutorials here and there whenever I wanted something that I didn't know how to do (or couldn't work out how to do).

try the video tut of Lynda.com php is hard to learn but try maybe to start with that

devshed.com has quite few good php tutorials.

I always recommend books to learn PHP, although W3Schools is a pretty good website to follow.

try to get ebook on php and go through it..

Originally Posted by weblover50

try to get ebook on php and go through it..

Which e-book would you suggest?

Hi, You just go through them "http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp",it's provide very basic Idea fir that language.

The way I learnt stuff was normally by getting a good book and carefully going through it. After you have the basics of programming covered things can get really easy. After getting to know the basics a good reference of what everything does would be very helpful.

From my experience, doing out tutorials and learning what each piece of code does is the best way to learn. After you get experience, you'll know what to put together to perform certain functions.

My advice is to do tutorial after tutorial to get a great grasp of what PHP is all about.
That is what I did on my host's forum. I just did tutorials and asked questions and they were very helpful.

W3Schools is good site to learn PHP from scratch. if you have some idea also search in Google, you can find many site.

I have taught php myself and I did it differently.

First I thought about a little project that I wanted to do.

Then I looked up what I needed to do on the internet.

php.net was my main resource together with some forums.

Books are so quickly out of date and to me they were never a real help.

search for php academy tutorials on youtube, they are the best in market

If u know other languages like c,java.. u can easily learn php.. search for tutorials at google u will get lot of resources..

Search for eBooks through the net..

do a google search for php tutorial, or learning php

If you're a programmer, use the chm file - it should be all you need. If you're not a programmer, first learn programming, then use the chm file. PHP is too simple a language to have to "learn" it.

To learn PHP Web Development, W3C School Tutorial is best to learn with live example.