Any recommendations for PHP tutorials with exercises?

[gozu]

A wise chinese man once said: "Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day, give him a link to some php exercises and he won't come begging for fish as often and cluttering our forum with newbie questions."

 

In that spirit, I humble ask for your recommendations.

 

Ideally, Im looking for tutorial sections with end-of-section problems of rising difficulty, quizzes, tests. That sort of thing. I learn by doing, never by reading.

 

Thank you very much for your time.

[revraz]

Quite a few books are like that.  Check with your local college (or any for that matter) and see what books they use.  You can usually find those books real cheap on Amazon and most of thost types of books have lessons either in them or that you can download from the publishers website.

[marcusfaye87]

And if you don't like reading

 

PHP Video Tutorials

[nloding]

After any tutorial or anything I read, I always ask what the next step is.  After reading a tutorial on creating user authentication, I said, OK, now what about adding users -- and then managing users, if you're an admin.  Then I set about doing that.

 

Honestly, I hate coursework.  Usually I'll sit down with a project and start until I don't know what to do and then look it up.  I started with a 200 page on PHP and, aside from highly topical books on security and OOP, I haven't read another since.  I have, however, read hundreds of articles online for the particular issues I was dealing with the at the time.