denniss Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Can you guys list the must-know topics of PHP. I am still a learner and I am trying to cover most of the important topics in PHP. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/178150-must-know-topics-of-php/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ialsoagree Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Personally, I think learning PHP is very incremental. What you "must know" is dependent on what you already know. If you don't know proper syntax, for example, you really don't need to know what a for each loop is, or how to define a new class. Getting your syntax down pat is more important. On the other hand, if you're comfortable with PHP but aren't familiar with good use of classes and developing OO code, then that's where you need to be headed. If you're familiar with syntax and you have basic programming methodology (knowledge of how to break problems down into "yes or no" questions, and what order to put those questions in) then you should probably be focusing on security. There's certainly other important things to learn, like database interaction (if you don't already know it) and optimizing code, but IMO both of those are secondary to good knowledge of security. You shouldn't be messing around with databases or be worrying about if your code is efficient if the pages you develop are easily manipulated by a malicious user. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/178150-must-know-topics-of-php/#findComment-939337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Hm... I would have to say the following are my list of must know topics Knowing how to write neat code (Very Important) Regex MySQL Array Manipulation Mailing System Those are the things that I tend to use the most Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/178150-must-know-topics-of-php/#findComment-939338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
denniss Posted October 18, 2009 Author Share Posted October 18, 2009 I agree with you but there are some aspects of PHP that are unique to only PHP and I am wondering which of those are the most important. I was looking for like... the use of $_SESSION, $_POST and so on... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/178150-must-know-topics-of-php/#findComment-939339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ialsoagree Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 $_SESSION is related to session handling in PHP. $_POST (along with $_GET) is related to user inputted data. These are good places to start learning. If you want specific details about session handling or about using user inputted data (user inputted data should probably be something you look into first) you can google tutorials related to it, here's a few: http://www.phpf1.com/tutorial/php-form.html http://myphpform.com/ http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/feedbackphp.shtml Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/178150-must-know-topics-of-php/#findComment-939348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
denniss Posted October 18, 2009 Author Share Posted October 18, 2009 Thanks for the replies =P but I was expecting answers like Garethp's. I think i am very comfortable with OO concept already. I did programming in Java and currently in C. What topics are there that are only unique to php that I must know? so far I see regex as something that I have never seen before.. and I need to practice more with PHP OO. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/178150-must-know-topics-of-php/#findComment-939350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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