How to learn

Is there a good online resource for a beginner who wishes to learn PHP?

Re: How to learn

On Nov 19, 9:17 pm, "phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com"
wrote:
> Is there a good online resource for a beginner who wishes to learn PHP?

http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/627 is a best source for absolute
beginners!

Re: How to learn

phill.luckhurst@googlemail.com wrote:

> Is there a good online resource for a beginner who wishes to learn PHP?

What (if any) programming languages do you already know? It makes a big
difference.

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Re: How to learn

Dont know about a good online resource - but trying to write a simple
guestbook is a good way to learn some basic php functions .

In a way , A guestbook is nothing more than a standard form that stores
the text information entered .

Once thats done you just need to retrieve and display it .





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> Is there a good online resource for a beginner who wishes to learn PHP?
>

Re: How to learn

On Nov 19, 5:17 pm, Toby A Inkster
wrote:
> phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > Is there a good online resource for a beginner who wishes to learn PHP?
>
> What (if any) programming languages do you already know? It makes a big
> difference.
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
> [OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 13 days, 14 min.]
>
> USD/EUR Exchange Rate Graph
> http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/11/18/usd-eur/

I've been doing little programming since I was 7 when I had a ZX81.
Back then it was a very poor basic but I soon started assembly and
pascal. From pascal I moved onto C and 68000 on the Amiga. At college
I did a lot more with C++ and then dabbled with HTML. I never really
dedicated enough time to any of them but now I have a lot of spare
time so really should put the effort in.

Re: How to learn

On Nov 19, 11:33 pm, "phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com"
wrote:
> On Nov 19, 5:17 pm, Toby A Inkster
> wrote:
>
> > phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > > Is there a good online resource for a beginner who wishes to learn PHP?
>
> > What (if any) programming languages do you already know? It makes a big
> > difference.
>
> > --
> > Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> > [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
> > [OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 13 days, 14 min.]
>
> > USD/EUR Exchange Rate Graph
> > http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/11/18/usd-eur/
>
> I've been doing little programming since I was 7 when I had a ZX81.
> Back then it was a very poor basic but I soon started assembly and
> pascal. From pascal I moved onto C and 68000 on the Amiga. At college
> I did a lot more with C++ and then dabbled with HTML. I never really
> dedicated enough time to any of them but now I have a lot of spare
> time so really should put the effort in.

I would really recommend you buy a book then, if you've been
programming before. They are usually much better written than the crap
you get on the internet. If you are determined to use the internet to
learn, I'd recommend:

http://www.w3schools.com/ and http://www.php.net/ to look up any weird
and wonderful functions.

Myself, I learned PHP from the book "Web Database Applications with
PHP & MySQL" from O'Reilly Books. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-
Database-Applications-PHP-MySQL/dp/0596005431/) It took me about 3
days to get to a stage where I could write a decent guestbook. If you
learn the first few chapters you're pretty much laughing, the later
chapters deal more with optimising your code than anything else.

Hope that helps.

Re: How to learn

On 20 Nov, 12:38, BoneIdol wrote:
> On Nov 19, 11:33 pm, "phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com"
>
>
>
>
>
> wrote:
> > On Nov 19, 5:17 pm, Toby A Inkster
> > wrote:
>
> > > phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > > > Is there a good online resource for a beginner who wishes to learn PHP?
>
> > > What (if any) programming languages do you already know? It makes a big
> > > difference.
>
> > > --
> > > Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> > > [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
> > > [OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 13 days, 14 min.]
>
> > > USD/EUR Exchange Rate Graph
> > > http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/11/18/usd-eur/
>
> > I've been doing little programming since I was 7 when I had a ZX81.
> > Back then it was a very poor basic but I soon started assembly and
> > pascal. From pascal I moved onto C and 68000 on the Amiga. At college
> > I did a lot more with C++ and then dabbled with HTML. I never really
> > dedicated enough time to any of them but now I have a lot of spare
> > time so really should put the effort in.
>
> I would really recommend you buy a book then, if you've been
> programming before. They are usually much better written than the crap
> you get on the internet. If you are determined to use the internet to
> learn, I'd recommend:
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/andhttp://www.php.net/to look up any weird
> and wonderful functions.
>
> Myself, I learned PHP from the book "Web Database Applications with
> PHP & MySQL" from O'Reilly Books. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-
> Database-Applications-PHP-MySQL/dp/0596005431/) It took me about 3
> days to get to a stage where I could write a decent guestbook. If you
> learn the first few chapters you're pretty much laughing, the later
> chapters deal more with optimising your code than anything else.
>
> Hope that helps.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

Amazon have just sold me that book.

Cheers for the heads up.