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Hi everyone!

 

My name is Morten and I am a mason in Denmark, learning to code more PHP to be able to optimize my website and code some special functions in the forms we are using.

 

Our website https://murerfirmaet.dk has been online for a few years and we have always hired developers, but now I would like to learn how to be able to manage it all myself!

 

Any tips for a starter like me?

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Hi there Hansen,

Your questions , while simple, comes down pretty much exclusively to how you like to learn something. My preference of digging in and learning a little bit at a time during a trial by fire via picking a small project or a tutorial found on the web and supplementing it by asking questions on a forum such as this may seem like folly to someone else that feels you need to read some books and take some courses.

Looking at your site's code, it looks like you're just running a Wordpress site so most of what you're looking at would be done in web panel and when modifying it's PHP elements, would take a bit more circuitous route.  Instead of modifying the PHP, there's some additional things to take into account being in the WP walled garden so learning how WP works and what it expects in code modules would be another thing to learn about.

For your case in particular, I'd find out how your forms are being built, whether it's a Wordpress addon or something homegrown.  Once you know that, you'll have a better idea of how to get started in modifying it.

The PHP manual is great place to learn how things work in PHP. Especially, if you have specific questions about how a built-in PHP function works. The manual can be found here:
https://www.php.net/manual/

When it comes to learning WordPress, and it's built-in features, their developer documentation can be useful.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Developer_Documentation

 

At times, the above resources can be overwhelming (and potentially underwhelming). That's where I usually turn to Google and this forum.

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