Best place to start?

[Lilian]

Hi,

Im not sure how to put this really :P I want to start learning PHP right from the beginning. Ive been working with it for over a year but I have never actually learned it and would like to so if anyone can post any starting links that would be great!

Also, are there any template coding tutorials out there?

Ta very much :)

[God..]

Hi,

Im not sure how to put this really :P I want to start learning PHP right from the beginning. Ive been working with it for over a year but I have never actually learned it and would like to so if anyone can post any starting links that would be great!

Also, are there any template coding tutorials out there?

Ta very much :)
Why somthing like PHP.net to learn php ;P

[mousey]

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/PHP/1

Its awsome, it will help i think it has 974 php tutorails atm

Good luck i may learn aswell

[Lilian]

Thank you :)

[rh4u]

tizag.com
404tutorials.com
pixel2life.com
zymic.com

[Lilian]

Thanks

[adamFTW]

w3schools

I'm not totally fond of it, but it does the job.

[=gamemaster=]

Ive been working with it for over a year but I have never actually learned it

Lol you contradicted urself a bit der :P
Youve obv learned it if youve worked with it :p

On topic :p

Ur a brill coder, Theres no need for you to learn, But its your choice :P

Try tutorialized like Tom said. Or you could get a manual or something from PC WORLD

[Invent]

I myself (when I started learning) NEVER. EVER. used tutorials.

The best way I learnt was looking at other people's code and then if you don't understand part of it, then use the PHP.net manual (http://php.net/function_name) and find out about that part of the code (a function or something). Then try to put it to use (the function) in a random script and see if it works.

[craigg.]

I learnt by downloading opensource code, extracting that code and making my own applets. Have a mess around with some variables and that. If youre into tutorials, i recomend www.killerphp.com. I had a look on there a few times to guide me through the process.

[Lycan]

i was on holiday.... with my laptop and no internet....


Bought a book, learnt through boredom

[Chippiewill]

do what invent says,

it's exactly what im doing I'm just looking at loads of scripts then editing and improving then making script from what i learnt.

"Practise makes perfect"

"Sitting in school does not"

"Same goes for tutorials"

(although you can use those scripts then edit :D and also at techtuts theres comments in all the coding, or at least there should be)

[Lilian]

Ta, I did learn myself through looking through codes ect but I want to start learning bit by bit again.

[Chippiewill]

Get coding for dummies,


(if it exists which it proably does as they have almost got one for everything)

[craigg.]

Instead of buying "for dummies" books, go to a Borders shop/café and sit in there having a cup of tea/coffee as well as learning. They allow you to sit in for however long you want, so take some money on a weekend and possibly a pen and paper to note things down.

(Ignore if you have never heard of a Borders shop)

[Invent]

I love Borders ^_^

We have a big-ish one around 2 minutes away from me at a place called the 'coliseum' (next to the Cheshire Oaks (Mcarthur Glenn) Outlet Village if you've heard of it). =D

(Yeah this is completely off-topic, but idc ^.^).

[Hayd93]

I love Borders ^_^

We have a big-ish one around 2 minutes away from me at a place called the 'coliseum' (next to the Cheshire Oaks (Mcarthur Glenn) Outlet Village if you've heard of it). =D

(Yeah this is completely off-topic, but idc ^.^).


Bloddy hell i live near there lol

[Dentafrice,]

I started out editing other peoples work, then began to do it my own..

I started about with about 90000 test files to test functions, then I would add on a little more, then a little more, and have a scripts :)