Hi! I'm just getting started with PHP, and I'm looking for a good, English site which can teach it to me. I tried googling, but searching for PHP gives me a lot of .php sites, and nothing about PHP itself. Any advice? Thanks!
I recommend you start with http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp I started there and progressed on to books.
Ah one of these topics.. well I used to be in the same boat and always heard the same stuff (php.net mainly). Personally what I did a couple years ago was buy a PHP book.. after mulling through it for awhile learning basics (how to manage form, variables, arrays, and so forth) I became a bit obsessed with my own projects. I would have some crazy idea.. no clue how to do it.. so I would goto php.net (after I learned the basics..) and try to figure it out. So point being.. learn the basics by any means possible.. from there just learn as you go. You can't force it on yourself, it helps wanting to make something and having a goal so you're self motivated. Worked for me, probably a bad explanation but you get the point.
you can use php manuel www.php.net or www.sitepoint.com, http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/php Mustafa
php(dot)net is a little rough getting started, especially if you have no programming background at all, however once you understand the basics, it's indespensible when pushing back boundries.
The book I learned from is now terribly out of date (PHP 3). O'Reilly's Programming PHP book might be a good place to start. It starts out with a pretty basic explanation of things like variable names and web forms and goes all the way up to things like drawing with the GD libraries. Once you've got the basics down, php.net is the place to go for digging up the more obscure and arcane functions.
why not get a teach-yourself-php type of book? it's so much easier and better organized than going through online tutorials. i would strongly suggest getting book - unless you're already proficient in another similar language.
I started in humble beginings with this very tutorial: phpfreaks.com/tutorials/65/0.php a few years later and it took me a month (then updates) to code this: xoog.net