Learning PHP - Help needed!

List of Videos for PHP

Great list of video tutorials, over two hundred.

-Chris

If you want to learn and put PHP into action check this guy out!

Learn by doing best way I learnt
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search for free PHP tutorials, there are good sites such as tutsplus.com

Download & Install XAMPP on your pc and start practice coding..

I have few ebooks for PHP...these books are awesome. Will upload in the evening

There is a book by Wrox Press that I found pretty useful to get started.

Apart from that though, the most important thing is actually try doing stuff. Learn as you go. You can't sit down and learn everything, and then decide to start programming. Instead it's an iterative process - learn by doing.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, does anyone know if there is a paid online course sort of like a certificate program that walks you from beginning to end?

Do you have any previous programming experience? I learned JavaScript before PHP, and I learned PHP a bit easier due to previous programming knowledge.

Basically every language has the same structure. Variables, if else, for, while, etc.

Just the functions and how the functions are called are different.

Then again, there's also object orientated programming.

Anyway, PHP is literally a language of functions.

php.net is the best way to learn in my opinion.

No, I have dabbled in php just from scripts I have had created, I learn best in a step by step way I guess, like here is lesson one learn it, master it then got to step two...

There are a lot of good books around..

Basically, in a nutshell, all you really need to know is how to declare variables ($variablename), basic statements (if/else, for/while), and MySQLi.

I recommend MySQLi over MySQL as its recommended for current projects.

All of these can be found on the php website.

Try this site, its good for the beginner.

Tizag Tutorials

Here's my top suggestion...I learned PHP this way...and within 3 months I was able to charge $7,500 for a custom site build..a book:

Head First PHP/MySQL

It's learning by doing...it's a terrific start. They have you working on relevant projects and there's a great support forum.

I tried the videos and online resources, but nothing compares to this book...serious!

Good luck!

Big squid, do you think it is still up to date? The reviews look good on it but it is fairly old so just wondering if it was still up to date on things?

I am not sure about any paid sources , but so far i have not seen anything as comprehensive as thenewbostons youtube channel and phpacademy on youtube too (from a beginners point of view)

TheNewBoston - Free Educational Video Tutorials on Computer Programming, Adobe Software, Computer Science and More! and http://phpacademy.org/

First start with Lynda Essential then go for Books , It takes a little bit time to learn .

But don't forget to keep it up every day.

Their was a channel newboston on youtube, they have some awesome tutorials for learning PHP, they helped me a lot to firm my grip on the basic contacts. Their are also some books which can help you to practice on your own, one of them is practical php and mysql. From my personal experience, I learned a lot from the company of developers, you can learn a lot from only listening to their discussions

PHP is an open source and very easy to learn online. There is an official website of PHP, which is PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor So you can use this site to learn PHP in a proper manner. In addition, You can go through w3schools.com

You can start with Lynda's courses, like this:
PHP with MySQL Essential Training | Video Tutorial from lynda.com

This one is OOP in PHP, object oriented programming.
PHP with MySQL Beyond the Basics | Video Tutorial from lynda.com

It's made by Kevin Skoglund, he did event site for alistapart.com I think. He sure has references

You want Lynda.com they have programming courses created in 2009 that are excellent and they updated the PHP courses earlier this year I think as well.

Buy Murach's PHP / MYSQL book from amazon it is a direct replacement for me for 4 other PHP books I own.

Also sites like:

Thetutlage - Online resource of web development and web design

JREAM | PHP OOP Video Tutorials

And Youtube


Focus your studies learning OOP, Object Oriented Programming it will save you a lot of time when creating your scripts. Procedural programming is what everyone starts learning but it has major disadvantages long term when programming. You don't get into OOP until after you get through most of the basics of PHP but it is worth taking the time to learn once you get a solid grasp of the basics of PHP.

Also Lynda.com courses are good they do not cover everything. They have 5 courses if I remember right on PHP and general programming but they don't go in detail about a lot of things. That is why it is good to look at other sources.

Lynda.com has one instructor though the information is good I just could hardly stand listening to the guy so I supplemented with some of the resources I put above.

- T

I think best resource online is w3 schools where you can get the best tutorial on each and every part of PHP..I find this website very helpful to get any information regarding any software language..Do visit it once.

The two things that are quick and easy to learn PHP is to follow the w3school.com for learning and practicing while listen and see the videos from the lynda.com .. these are the effective ways to go ahead without any trouble.

I have tutorial videos regarding it. Sure will must be share here. This will be helpful for you in this regard.

Even my local library has 17 books on PHP, and they hardly have any technical books. I mean, they have books on Windows 3.11 and Lotus! You library may have some copies as well, and they may be dated, but you could learn it. There was a book, "Learn PHP in 24 Hours", which I once read. That was pretty good but my current library doesn't have it. Yours might. Good luck.

My best suggestion is PHP | Codecademy

It has everything you need and there is a very easy way to test and get familiar with it.

PHP is an Html embedded Server side scripting language.The Syntax of Php is borrowed from C, Java and Pearl with some unique Php features.This language allow web developers to create dynamically generated webpage quickly.
Before You want to learn php you should some basics like:
1.HTML: know the basic syntax of Html tags.
2.Basic Programming language:This will help you to learn Php very easily.

The options you can choose are visit W3SCHOOLS for the tutorials of PHP and Visit youtube for the actual video tutorials which can help you by learning step by step process of PHP. And don't rush yourself