Starting Out in Programming

Hi,

My webmaster recently left and I now own a site that runs a .PHP database. I have no coding skills (html or otherwise) and would like to learn. Any suggestions on where to start to learn PHP.

Thanks in advance!

 

First learn html. You will be totally lost without it.

Then...

Check out this guys website:
http://www.php-for-beginners.co.uk/

Also pick up as many books from oreilly as you can.

Don't pick up this book: Beginning PHP5, Apache, And MySQL Web Development by Elizabeth Nazamore. There were so many errors in it that you spend more time debugging the code than actually learning.

Learning Php, Apache, and MySQL at the same time will also save you a lot of heartache in the future.

 

also if you want online documentation for php go to php.net and click the documentation link... it also contains all php functions on that site which you can search for...

but i agree without knowing HTML you wont be able to work with PHP... so learn some HTML first

 

Join #php in EFNET and start communicating. There are many newbies in the channel.

 

Join any egroups from google and yahoo

 

Well first, you have to learn a basic HTML. Then search the internet about tutorial in PHP.

 

Agree, Learning basics of HTML is great help for advancing further with PHP programming.

 

http://php.net/tut.php