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@NogDogApr 21.2008 — #Most of my learning came from [url=http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php]the official on-line manual[/url] . Most of the rest came from forums like this one.
Books can be very useful, but make sure you get a very recent one, hopefully ensuring that you are then learning the current best practices, and not those from several years ago that are now deprecated. Similarly, while on-line tutorials can be very good sources, you need to take them with a grain of salt: there is generally no peer review process for such tutorials, you don't always know how old and possibly out-of-date they are, and you don't necessarily know whether the author really knows the current best practices. Therefore, when using such tutorials, always go to the official manual and read over the descriptions of the functions being used in order to look for notes, warnings, and applicable users' comments about that function.
How did YOU learn PHP?
Hello everyone. I’ve decided I want to learn PHP. In school, the only thing we learn is simple html and Dreamweaver so I’ll have to learn it in my spare time.
I now wonder how [B]you
If you learned by yourself, was it from books, websites, videos, friends? or anything else. Perhaps you can give me some advice (I’ve began to read a php tutorial from one of the links in the stickied post but I like things being explained from different authors – giving you another perspective of it sometimes).
Well that’s pretty much it. ?
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@NogDogApr 21.2008 — #Most of my learning came from Books can be very useful, but make sure you get a very recent one, hopefully ensuring that you are then learning the current best practices, and not those from several years ago that are now deprecated. Similarly, while on-line tutorials can be very good sources, you need to take them with a grain of salt: there is generally no peer review process for such tutorials, you don't always know how old and possibly out-of-date they are, and you don't necessarily know whether the author really knows the current best practices. Therefore, when using such tutorials, always go to the official manual and read over the descriptions of the functions being used in order to look for notes, warnings, and applicable users' comments about that function.