Who here knows PHP? How long did it take you to learn?

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  • Bojangles
    Confirmed User
    • Apr 2007
    • 5419
    #1

    Who here knows PHP? How long did it take you to learn?

    Also, what books/tutorials or whatever do you suggest?
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    • k0nr4d
      Confirmed User
      • Aug 2006
      • 9231
      #2
      You never *KNOW* php. They keep coming out with new functions and stuff. Realistically, 6 months to have a grasp of whats going on, and 3-4 years before you start doing things efficiently.
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        • qxm
          Confirmed User
          • Jul 2006
          • 5970
          #3
          Originally posted by k0nr4d
          You never *KNOW* php. They keep coming out with new functions and stuff. Realistically, 6 months to have a grasp of whats going on, and 3-4 years before you start doing things efficiently.
          sounds reasonable ... very similar process with most programming languages... it took me a comparable amount of time to realize wtf C++ is about

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            • brandonstills
              Confirmed User
              • Dec 2007
              • 1964
              #4
              Originally posted by k0nr4d
              You never *KNOW* php. They keep coming out with new functions and stuff. Realistically, 6 months to have a grasp of whats going on, and 3-4 years before you start doing things efficiently.
              I've found that studying other languages and frameworks have a huge impact on programmer efficiency and it translates across all languages. I became a much better PHP programmer after studying Ruby on Rails. Also, look into the source of open source packages. They have a lot of nice ways of doing things that you can learn from.

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                • k0nr4d
                  Confirmed User
                  • Aug 2006
                  • 9231
                  #5
                  agreed. The best way to learn a programming language is by looking at other code.
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                    • Adultnet
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                      • Sep 2003
                      • 8713
                      #6
                      you can never know it all... a good start is php.net


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                        • StuartD
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                          • Jul 2002
                          • 29903
                          #7
                          I've been writing php for about 8 years now and I still learn new stuff all the time.
                          Sometimes it just comes to me, a better/faster way to do something... ohter stuff I see in other people's code.

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                            • Bojangles
                              Confirmed User
                              • Apr 2007
                              • 5419
                              #8
                              Sounds like it's going to take me a while... Yikes.

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