Learning php

[bebhbo]

Before lerning php, what should I learn ? I wanna be a wenb develooper in future. please help me, please...
I don't know anything abuot this, please give me guideance,..
Thanks
bebhbo

[visualAd]

Buy a beginning PHP book. Wrox are a good publisher.
Learn the basic principles of HTML and CSS
Understand the basics of web browsing. I.e. HTTP requests/responses,
server side and client side.

I'll post you some links later when I have some more time ;)

[Optexcur]

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=free+php+tutorials&rs=0&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t

[Optexcur]

By the way, don't ever buy books on these web programming topics, there are a bunch of tutorials as the link I posted previously for you. Plus, books on wp are also freely downloadable if you are also using some kind of fileshare systems...

[visualAd]

By the way, don't ever buy books on these web programming topics, there are a bunch of tutorials as the link I posted previously for you. Plus, books on wp are also freely downloadable if you are also using some kind of fileshare systems... I'm sure the authors of these wonderful books invested their time, effort and money so inconsiderate, selfish individuals could download them via P2P networks and leave them out of pocket. As it is it is quite difficult for the authors of these books to make money and they often contribute a lot of their time for free to help others out on forums; One of whom contributes a great deal both here and at VBForums, so I don't fell that anyone has the right to steal off them and defraud them.

Not to mention your comment also violates the AUP.

Physical media such as books are an invaluable resource for any developer, be he begginner, novice or expert. They often go into a great deal more detail than online tutorials (which are usually focused at solving a specific problem), teach good programming techniques and provide an insight into the topic given to you by someone who has a sound understanding of it.

While tutorials are useful, piecing together a large application from code taken from 100's of tutorials will only serve to make your job more difficult in the long run. Rather than a learning tool, tutorials should be used as an aid and reference. As such I have done some research on Amazon and found a few books with some good reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593928/qid=1105212524/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-3260180-1744151?v=glance&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764557440/qid=1105224307/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-3260180-1744151?v=glance&s=books

Where HTML is concerned, these books will teach the basics of HTML. The W3C (http://www.w3c.org/) web site has full and detailed specifications for HTML and CSS and W3Schools (http://www.w3schools.org/)is a great site to test your skills and learn new techniques.

Lastly, one of the most useful resources when it comes to learning PHP is the PHP site its self. I have said this many times and will say it again, never have a I seen a site with such useful and detailed documentation. Any detail the documentation lacks is more than made up for by the user contributed comments. Whenever you have a problem with PHP the PHP site should be your first point of call as for the most part your solution will be in the documentation or the user comments.

You can jump to the documentation for any PHP function simply by typing its name at the end of the URL. e.g. for the in_array function you would simply type into your browser:

http://www.php.net/in_array

If you are serious I would also set up a local installation of PHP. You can download and install PHP, MySql and the Apache web server for Windows very easily and have a platform to test your scripts easily.

Some background foundation that may help. If you have a basic understanding of these topics it will help you when creating PHP applicaitons:

HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) - http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/#whatis
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) - http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/overview.html

[Optexcur]

I'm sure the authors of these wonderful books invested their time, effort and money so inconsiderate, selfish individuals could download them via P2P networks and leave them out of pocket. As it is it is quite difficult for the authors of these books to make money and they often contribute a lot of their time for free to help others out on forums; One of whom contributes a great deal both here and at VBForums, so I don't fell that anyone has the right to steal off them and defraud them..............

Sorry, I only try to take when people try to give,
Anyway, you work great with those pieces of information! LOL
Well, now I am sure I am not a lonely theorist...
Where is your site though ?

[visualAd]

Sorry, I only try to take when people try to give,
Anyway, you work great with those pieces of information! LOL
Well, now I am sure I am not a lonely theorist...
Where is your site though ? You would hurl if you saw it. I haven't updated it in ages and it needs a serious seeing to. So I'll leave it to your imagaination how terrible it really is.

A google search for visualAd will no doubt confirm for you though :wave:

[ThangTiVaConTho]

http://forum.php.org/
There are also some other forums if you'd like to join
keyword "web design/programming."
Put a stop now at adding to the bookshelves those books that are correctly just for reading at free time, like a fun/hobby

A note, high speed easily causes accidents, and gives darn monkeys chances to have big laughters...
if I have any chances to paint an ugly picture, I will try to draw, like adding an IF conditional clause in a batch file!

[blueday54555]

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/4576.htm
http://www.webmasterworld.com/library.cgi?viewforum=88

[Nibinaear]

There's no better begginers book for PHP and MYSQL than:

PHP and MYSQL for Dynamic Websites, Visual Quickpro guide

Have a look for a visual quickpro guide if you ever need a book on a particular subject, I highly recommend them.

[poolwin2001]

Free online book here:

http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/

[Sander@the-new-world.com]

The best way to learn PHP is to learn the basic things through http://www.php.net.

After reading through their documentation you can begin programming simple things. The next step is to search for tips and tutorials on various site and look at scripts other developers made.

Kind regards,

Sander

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