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[Schlo_50]

Hello, im a student just finishing my last year of a-levels and have to figure out what to do in life!  :P

I'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
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[txmedic03]

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.