I can get around fairly well with PHP but I am far from certificate material. Is the best way home study with books bought from a book store, or to register in an expensive school? Any advice would be appreciated!
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=1712665 previous thread on identical subject. my reply then: in the end it really depends on your learning style. some people are great independant learners, others benefit a ton from a classroom setting.
get some online resources, dont learn everything atonce, make some little projects to test everything you have learnt, this is the best way www.w3schools.com is a good starting point
Get php documents (pdf and books) Look basic fuctions and string Make basic exapmles (post, formmail, textboxs) Get ready script and develop it. (this is best way to test by owwn) Starting develop your own script .
Well, the best to way learn PHP in my opinion, is before learning PHP have knowledge of HTML. Then, buy a book, I recommend a PHP & MySQL book.
I learn the best by creating projects. You just have to figure out what you want to learn and then invent a project that requires the use of those concepts. Like most any language, there's very little know about PHP and a lot to learn about programming. Just reading a book may make you knowledgable about the language but you'll suck as a programmer until you actually start doing complex things with the language.
Hi, I've started to learn in in this way. I started to write a WebDAV server on PHP, whan I've started I've no idea how can I write it, but after 1 mount I did it.. So in my opinion best way to start with some problem. In that way you'll think and do, if you do only what book is offer to do, you'll not think.