How hard is it to learn PHP?
 

For someone with minimum HTML knowledge. Is it hard to learn?

php, as with pretty much any language, is easy -- its the concept and logic that take time.

Buy a book and read it if you have the patience. I was trying to, but I can't stick my head in a book that long for something so boring. The language it's self looks pretty easy to pick up if you stay with it.

Hell you can pick a lot up just by looking at code.. I learned enough just by doing that so I can edit simple scripts.

Not speaking to you right now :(

if you know ANY other programming language, it should be very easy...

Don't hold grudges, bro. Don't take anything on this board personal, you'll live longer. :thumbsup

www.php.net/manual

will help a ton :)

Sounds good, I'm chill now. Someone here just got under my skin.

It's all good now :)

very easy if you really wanna learn it

Can anyone recommend any good books for someone with absolutely no programming knowledge? I'm talking about starting from scratch.

I am in the same boat.

books are weak... best way to learn is hands on.. trial and error..

i'll get you some names of good sitesand books(i guess) in the morning... :thumbsup

I perfect 1 language, VB decent at html, php is nothing hard pretty simple should catch on quick

very simple to learn it.......but of course you'll only become good with a lot of practise!

^^ worked for me :thumbsup

It's really easy... I learned it 6 years ago, lied at a job interview and said I knew it, had had about a week to pick it up before my first day, and I did fine.

Just follow some tutorials with some basic mysql examples and you'll pick it up.

try that

skip the installation part ( II )

go to III after you checked out part I :)

or sign on AIM.. I have a few ebooks I can send you

Take a three-prong attack:

1. find some simple php scripts, make small changes, and see what happens
2. read the manual from php.net to get a high level understanding of what the language does
3. find a tutorial that accomplishes a simple task (mysql access, for example) to get a working understanding

Do these at the same time, rotating between the three, and the pieces will start to fall into place.

>>Acid - check out lynda.com´s online video courses.

damn, you signed off on me.. I had more to send

^- that's a great way to learn PHP :)

I was looking for something like that. I get asked this allot.

have you done one from there for php?

I have some of lyndas cd courses for photoshop/javascript since before, which I liked very much, but havent tried the online php course yet. For 25bucks/month you get access to everything in their library (flash, illustrator, photshop, css2 - the works) which must be considered a very sweet deal.

Wow that's a good deal, maybe worth adding to a hosting bundle or something.

Thanks for the details. :)

Oh, I learned from http://www.devshed.com , helped launch a 6 year career.

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always wanted to learn myself, but never did!

Same here. I bought the 'PHP & MySQl Bible' a number of months back. Started reading through this 4-6" thick book, and got tired of reading. I know html, and the concept, and all of that was easy enough to understand. But for me, it's always the time factor. Time reading, time doing trial and error, and the rest of it. In the end, I contracted the work out to a company in the Czech Republic to do it.

A lot cheaper, easier, and less time consuming for me than to do it all myself. If I need to go back in, tinker, or change something. It will be easier with the book, than doing it all from scratch.

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cool info in this thread, i also need to learn that shit lol

I wish I had a couple of years to go back to school and pick up programming and scripting, Flash and some other graphics classes.

It does help to have previous programming experience :thumbsup I'm sure you had that, right?

Sitepoint.com - They have several books there that may peak your interest... especially check out "Build your own Database Driven websites By Kevin Yank" Solid book, taught me a lot. :) Goodluck! :thumbsup

hehe, starts in october for me.. had to learn some more :winkwink:

just buy a book or better yet just google it, its really easy

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