Hello all. I'm trying to learn a little about PHP. I just bought some scripts from a DP member for a good price thinking I could figure it out. My question is, is PHP hard to learn, should I take a class or something. Just wanted to ask because HTML is pretty easy and I was wondering if PHP is too.
PHP is easy to learn but is harder than HTML. You should try and get hold of a good book - something like "Learn PHP in 24 hours". Or do some online tutorials - there are lots of them around. PHP usually uses a database, otherwise why would you want to program a website? Typically, PHP people use MySQL. Again, you can get good books and onlione tutorials to learn about MySQL. Good luck
The difficulty level will be dependant on your experience with programming. As rayqsl pointed out, look at books and tutorials and study as much code as you can find and try to work out what it is trying to do. There is loads of code at www.sourceforge.net Look at tutorials for SQL as well, as this is very useful for designing database web applications. Brew
As far as programming languages go its quite easy because its very forgiving. Although html isnt a programming language, its a markup language so the fundamentals are very different. OUr friends here give the best advice, grab a good beginners book and practice practice practice. Good Luck
Its "difficulty" level, depends entirely on your level of programming experience. The logic behind programming is exactly the same with each language, its just the syntax, functions etc... that are different.