msarro Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Hello all, first post! I have recently gotten interested in starting to learn PHP. The thing is, this is completely new for me. I have pretty much no knowledge about PHP (I began with C awhile ago, moved on to some very light C++ and then Java). So, I've been looking at most of the PHP tutorials online, and most seem to go through the normal steps of Hello world, Operators, Looping, etc. Well, one of the reasons why I was attracted to php was the OOP ability in php5. Trying to learn more about that has thrown me into things like MVC and other frameworks.. most of which I'm not very familiar with. Originally I started learning procedural programming a loooong time ago, and then when i tried to learn OOP it was nigh impossible to wrap my mind around - so I'm a bit nervous trying to learn php as a procedural language first because I don't want to run into the same issues. So, where do I get started? Some friends reccomended starting out using CakePHP, others have reccomended that I just play first with procedural php... I'm just not sure where to start to get to where I want. So, whats the best order to start learning this stuff... OOP PHP, Procedural PHP, frameworks and design patterns... I feel lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stooney Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 You need to learn the basics first. There's plenty of good books that will teach you more than enough to get you going. Read this thread: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,58799.0.html OOP is definitely the wrong place to start. In my eyes, if you don't feel you could (over time of course) understand and rewrite something yourself, then you should take a step back and learn what you don't know. For example, if you couldn't write your own framework or don't even know what it is, then you need to learn what goes into it first, then actually study frameworks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Theres a great free book in my sig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msarro Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Checking out the Sams book and the free book... thanks for giving me a starting point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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