Where did you learn PHP?

self taught. i was coding in VB3 on aol. Moved on from there. Grabbed a php book. read enough to know the basics. Found php.net then all was good from there.

 

Self taught. I hacked at a Perl auction script (back when eBay was starting to get big (circa 98/99). I think the people still distribute it EveryAuction? I think was the name. Then I starting mucking in PHP 'cause it was much more logical. Then I went to college and took 2 C++ courses. Then I changed majors to Business and started doing heavier PHP. And now I learn by breaking. IE, I break my Joomla core when I want something. Then I hack til I get it. USUALLY with good results (not always). That's also how I learned routing and email/dns/database/radius administration. Cause where I use to work. If you broke it, you fixed it.

PHP.net is GREAT for function lookups, once you figure out what they mean by someFunction( some value, [ something else, another ]) FYI, The [] mean it's an optional input.

There's some good forums, and some good books out there.

But find some open source scripts that interest you. Upload them to your server, and start hacking away.

Mike

 

from university ... the difference in university is that you have access to a teacher and a teacher assistant, debugging will go faster .

they dident teach me advanced stuff all what they do is show you the road

wow i just saw that i can't post there so red reputation do have bad effects

 

I need a good forum , related with PHP, so that i can ask for help on "PHP issues" .. can anyone help me ?

 

I got the start-off from a friend (well, kinda) and got the rest of php.net ...

 

Your in it. DP Forums -> PHP.

Most of the people the peruse DP-PHP are either really good programmers, or really great programmers. Theirs a ton of other PHP forums out their. Most suck though with a much of newbs asking "How do I display ** here". And no logical replies. DP is largely professionals.

 

i'll probly buy PHP & MySQL for Dummies to learn how to. i've tried learnin online, but seeing as i like to read, reading a full book would be easier for me....though i suck at all aspects of programmin so i probly got no chance it learning it

 

I learned from manuals and tutorial, also had some fundamental news on common web-application development. PHP is easy, maybe because I knew Delphi, C/C++, Java, Perl and aslo assembler before. The main have been taken from projects
Now I studing different technologies, using Smarty in my work.
BTW, maybe somebody need professional programmer? Have time for new projects.

 

I believe I learned PHP originally from the nice tutorials at web monkey.

 

i started learning by searching "php codes tutorials" but i learned most from php.net

 

. Think i learnt it from a E-book i downloaded, then found php.net after a few days.

 

I learned it myself after doing C++... PHP.net was a great help....

 

It is always better to learn by self... start from some small tutorial online.. then read things and write and experiment with codes. when you have catched up with the basics.. then get some free small guestbook etc.. script and study and try making your own and so on.... and then move on to studying larger scripts.

And then start applying your gained knowledge to do things. once you do this you experince level and expertise will go on incresing.

Courses will provide you with meterial to learn all those stuff but by taking a course it does not guarentee that you will be able to apply your programming knowldge in solving practical problems.

 

Browsing through tutorials on internet and of course www.php.net

 

There have some basic PHP tutorials writen by my partners in developer zone .

 

The overwhelming boredem just got to me, so i decided to learn it using all sorts of tutorials and resources.

 

a friend introduced PHP and gave me tons of tutorials about PHP.
Thanks to him. And Im still learning PHP.

 

Learned mostly myself... having been in computer science at university gave me enough information to figure it out... really once you learn one programming language, they are all basically the same. I guess except for the odd reference to books or a website, I was just able to wing it.

 

I learned by myself. I looked at existing scripts to get an understanding, then set out and experimented, looked at documentations on the php.net website and once you get quite a good understanding it all comes easily.

 

I learned php by myself. I started reading tutorials and created simple scripts, then used php.net and asked friends that already knew php for help.

You can learn the basics of php at w3schools.com and freewebmasterhelp.com, then use php.net.