kevinritt Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 I ask this question because I'm curious where people get started. There are no 'physical' classes around here to learn PHP. I have a few books. I've looked at several online tutorials but I seem to be spinning in circles. Is it a question of just learn the basics and go off on your own or is there a sequence of steps to be taken? Any suggested links? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stealthmode666 Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 I'm in the same boat, I bought Wrox Press Beginning PHP 5, did all the book then got Wrox PHP and MySQL, create, modify, reuse 2008. I got apache installed and MySQL but php 5 never went right and still never got it to work. I have been trying to do what I thought was a simple thing by emailing a form back to me in html table format but still no joy and asked loads so I will join you on this boat of learning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 I had a project in mind, so I learned as I created it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinritt Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 revraz - where/ how did you learn? Trial and error, books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Books mainly. But I have programming experience with VB, so I knew the concepts, I just had to learn the syntax. But I learned VB the same way, with a book and a project in mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikedean Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Depends on the type of person you are, if you are more of a doer, then thinking of a project and using the likes of Google, Yahoo (or of course this forum) etc. to find website that will help you do what you want to do. Or if you learn more through books, then getting a good book and reading that will be the best way for you. There is no set way of learning a language, it's the way you are that defines the method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinritt Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 Any suggestions on sites/ tutorials? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 I started here http://www.phpvideotutorials.com/free It has been over a year sice I have touched php so I forgotten most of it, but I found these videos the best of all the beginner tutorials I tried. The guy who made them does go off on a tangent a little at times, but he's actually quite entertaining and does a great job of explaining stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffin Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 My experiences with PHP started with Torrent Trackers, At first I had used a precompiled tracker and it was nice to start as a tracker but severely limited as to what u can do with it. I was than introduced to TBDev.net A torrent tracker that was written in php. So I started modifying the script to do whut I wanted, small modifications at first. which grew into bigger and more complex modifications. It was great to take an existing project, go in and start making modifications to what u wanted (As original script code is a very basic tracker community script). The TBDev community helped along the way when I had questions, or needed a fresh set of eyes to look at code. Or if they had questions, i could throw my two cents in. Been over 3 years, and i still participate in that community, even tho i do not run a tracker anymore.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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