What's the best forum for php which I can find information related with php learning, help, free scripts, developers, etc? Currently I only know digitalpoint and sitepoint, what else?
IMO, DP and SP will be great for asking specific questions about PHP scripts. I really suggest you find something one of your sites needs, and try to build it. Whether it be an image uploader, a comment form, anything, just go for it. If you run into a problem, post and the forum will help out. I also suggest reading this blog post: http://minboost.com/index.php/2007/03/28/if-it-aint-brokethen-youd-better-know-why/ After reading that, I went through each of my scripts and made sure I fully understood what each function was doing. If I didn't, I made a post on a support forum. You feel a lot better about your coding if you actually know what it is doing. Also, WAMP is a great program for testing your PHP as it removes the need to constantly reupload to your host. e39m5
Theres been multiple topics on learning PHP here (not saying you double posted, you asked for forums) which have a lot of good recommendations of websites / they usually include a forum. I would recommend sites like PHPBuilder, Tizag, and so forth in addition to SitePoint, DigitalPoint. Also I came across a website called "The Peoples Toolbox" which has some decent tutorials / articles.. you can see which ones are typically more useful by seeing whose put them in their "toolbox".
It's hard to say exactly which are the "best". I always just use google for specific questions and it seems to bring me to a different site everytime.
For me personally, I'm never really going to LEARN PHP in the sense that I can program my own script, but like CGI I'm sure we're both smart enough to learn how it works in order to manipulate a script into what we need. And of course if we don't know, ask these guys cause they do.
I'm not sold on it, though the RAD aspect of it is nice. The only large-scale site I'm aware of that uses it is Twitter, and that's with some tweaking to get it to run. It is indeed a nice platform though, clean crisp syntax.. I plan on playing with it shortly
Try http://www.w3schools.com/ if it's for raw php coding tutorials. Otherwise, if it's to mod existing software (like Coppermine or phpbb), let us know - most of them have decent support communities.