good (best) ways to lean php....

[son.of.the.morning]

I would realy like to study php, other than taking other codes and editing them i havnt got a clue.

[rwwd]

Hi there son.of.the.morning,

 

There is no "best way", we all learn in different ways and at different speeds.

 

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

 

That link is a good start point, and of course, there are loads of other tut's on line, on the php.net site.

 

Choose something simple to start with and build from that.

 

Cheers,

Rw

[ignace]

You can only learn PHP by practicing it. Buy a PHP cookbook this will give you some stuff to practice. Buy a book about PHP best practices to correct whatever the cookbook wrongfully told you or display your examples on these forums (people will tell you what you should and shouldn't be using).

 

Push your boundaries by trying out new and more difficult problems. Retrieve 2 year old code and re-factor it without actually re-writing it and make sure it still works after your done. Keep doing this for all your code. This will also be an indicator of your progress.

 

This will make you a competent PHP programmer not an expert PHP programmer. To take the final step you should start with expert training like Zend Certified Engineer, this will make sure you know of everything that PHP gives you. Next, start writing extensions and hacking the PHP core. You are an expert PHP programmer when your extension gets published and comes pre-bundled with PHP, by that time you'll have many years under your belt and are probably already consulting for companies that deploy PHP applications.

 

Good luck

[son.of.the.morning]

Thanks guys.

Ignace, guessing you have come that far?

[ignace]

Thanks guys.

Ignace, guessing you have come that far?

 

I'm currently at the part where you write PHP extensions but I do not publish them as these are custom to the company I work for. A good book for everything PHP/MySQL is Expert PHP and MySQL