How Fast Can I Learn This?

I have quite a good understanding of XHTML, not much knowlage of CSS and I was wondering how long it takes to pickup PHP and what should I focus on before starting to learn PHP?

 

If you already know a procedural programming language like C, Perl, you can learn it in 2-4 weeks.

 

PHP is very different to XHTML and CSS but as it career stated if you know of another language like perl or c you can pick it up quite quickly.

Hello world example

<?php

echo "Hello World";

?>

 

hey I'm just thinking about learning php as well. I know HTML and CSS. will it be easy for me to learn php? I know of no other languages!

 

HTML,CSS & XHTML are important to build web interface but those are not much helpful to learn PHP.For this you should knew any server side programming language like ASP.

 

I like to learn php too.

can you guys recommend any book that you guys used to learn php or any website..

 

I have a bunch of PHP video tutorials.

 

PHP is very easy. The best way to learn (in my eyes) is to look at a lot of code in the beginning and try to figure out what it means and what it does

 

Some Greatest PHP tutorials on websites:
http://www.chatintamil.org/php_tutorials.php
http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp
http://www.hudzilla.org

 

I bought a couple of books...700-800 pages each...Mostly it was just a bunch of code examples repeated over and over again, with about 50-60 pages of decent information in between. I paid $40 and up for these books. The best place to get information at is at www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp and www.php.net, both are free, and full of resources that I haven't found in any book.

 

for learning PHP you must have idea on programming language like C.i learnt PHP fast bcoz i know C.but if dont have any knowledge of programming you still can learn PHP,but it will take some time.there are lots of free tutorials available online.and one thingHP has no relation with XHTML,CSS-they are for designing,making frontend but PHP is for the backend.so there is no relation in syntax at all.

 

PHP/MYSQL database Applications by Jay Geenspan & Brad Bulger
should be a good book for newbies to get a kickoff from

About 600 pages with lots of code examples and walktroughs.
It's a little old though, so you may want to get some other book covering PHP 5 also.