pocobueno1388 Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Hello everyone =) I have been programming with PHP for about 8-10 months now and within that time I have been absolutely crazy with it. I don't think a day had gone by that I havn't been programming and trying to learn. I feel like I am stuck now with my learning...I don't feel like I am advancing anymore. So I am here to ask you where I should go next with PHP? I still consider myself a huge beginner as I know there are whole new levels of thinking/syntax that I still have not touched on. I have gone through 3 pretty thick books but they touched up on mostly the same stuff. I don't really know how to explain to you guys where exactly I am in my learning...but you have a grasp. Now my question is could you guys list some important aspects of PHP that would be useful in learning? I am very enthusiastic about it and would love to become good enough one day to be a software developer for a company or do something with it as a career. After I feel I have a good enough knowledge of PHP I would like to expand to other languages out there, but I am not going to get into that right now, that will be a much later post about which language to learn next. So any pointing to tutorials or giving a list of some PHP concepts that should be known would be great. Thanks. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/40610-solved-where-to-next/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barand Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Without knowing what you know now it's difficult to advise on where to go next. The main areas that come to mind are things that are peripheral to PHP SQL OOP CSS XML (what would we do without "three-letter-acronyms"? ) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/40610-solved-where-to-next/#findComment-196460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pocobueno1388 Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 Yes, but not exactly what I was looking for. Those are very broad categories but I am looking for specific areas I should focus on within PHP (ex. classes, flat-files, etc.). Hmmm, it is pretty hard to give you guys a view on where I personally am...so how about we just put that aside and we can just maybe list intermediate type PHP methods I should know. So if you have an "intermediate" level PHP skill that is important and powerful in PHP, please list it here. For some reason I am thinking there are going to be things I have never heard of so that is why I havn't been able to find tutorials on the stuff, so that is the reason for this post. Otherwise I would be on google searching myself, but I really can't find what I don't know. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/40610-solved-where-to-next/#findComment-196465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBS103 Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Based on the power and sheer amount of questions we get asked on a daily basis, I would look into improving on the basic regular expression skills you have if you have yet to master them. I guess if you are looking for something specific, you can do text searching and highlighting, string manipulation, and other important additions for any kind of website you might be building. I think join a competition is good idea if you stuck for a ideas. It will present an idea for you to work off of. You could do the self-challenging thing and try something with some advanced mathematics or the like. Currently I'm testing myself by making a script that will factor any polynomials inputted. Its neat because it includes manipulating user input, a whole set of math, and just clean coding practice. It may not be your cup of tea, but you get the point. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/40610-solved-where-to-next/#findComment-196482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsmeArry Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Here are few things u can work upon: 1. Alternative PHP Cache (APC) 2. Bitwise Orerators 3. Class Abstraction 4. class_parents 5. COM class () 6. Configure options 7. Execution Operators 8. Function Handling Functions just this for now.... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/40610-solved-where-to-next/#findComment-196731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazever Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Read all the questions posted in this forum, If you cannot solve any of them, guess it's something you should learn. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/40610-solved-where-to-next/#findComment-196757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pocobueno1388 Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 Okay, thanks everyone. I think I will start assigning myself projects that contain multiple things I don't know. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/40610-solved-where-to-next/#findComment-196765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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