Schlo_50 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Hello, im a student just finishing my last year of a-levels and have to figure out what to do in life! :PI'd like to get into web design using PHP as a specialist language, can any of you tell me how you got into PHP and how you went about learning it please? Any help would be greatly appreciated!Thanks again!Schlo_50(UKmember) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txmedic03 Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Hmm...how I got into PHP? Well, I actually fell into PHP. I started with lots of other languages many years before I even started working with PHP and then about 6 or 7 years ago I guess it was I wanted to have a message board on a website and I didn't like the way any of the ones on the web looked and operated, so I decided to write my own, but I didn't have a clue about anything above and beyond JavaScript, HTML and VBS. I needed something a little more powerful to do things the way I wanted and after a little searching on the web I found this relatively uncommon language known as PHP. I say uncommon for two reasons 1. I'd never heard of it and 2. Most of the websites I visited for quite some time after still had extensions like .shtml .html .cfm .cgi... Now that I had found this new language and after a little playing with the installer I had a working copy of PHP on my local test server. Then 3 hours spent reading through the functions on php.net and I was ready to start stumbling through my early works. An additional 3 hours spent coding and I had a working message board that did what I needed it to do. I have been hooked on the language ever since and that is how I got started in PHP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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