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Jul 01.2011

hey guys, I’m a newbie in this site and this is my first thread I just wanna learn how to use PHP is there a technique? You know like most of the people I’m also an ordinary IT student which is not gifted in terms of programming skills but although I know that I’m not that good in logic and programming I don’t want to stop learning. I always want to learn. I want to try to study this language although I know this is really hard. So guys please help me…

I want to learn PHP because in my 3rd year of college my score in PHP subject in machine project is 40 out of 100 and I admit that although I received high grades in some IT subjects I believe that I’m not that good. I want to study PHP because I want to build my own website. Guys is it posible? please help me. Give me some tips for where I should start and what softwares, applications, programming languages, or books I should learn or I need to learn.

Post comments as you can. Just start with the basics lol

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@DerokorianJul 01.2011 — I rather liked -> PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) for starting out.
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@rebelweb2007Jul 02.2011 — I use the Head first PHP book and started from it. It was very basic but i learn so many techniques from the book. Also, I use Netbeans for PHP. It is kinda a memory (RAM) hog but it is the best PHP editor I have found out there and best of all it is open source and free. I would start looking at Tutorial online as well, but you have to find something that teaches you the way you learn best, and only you know that.
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@NvenomJul 02.2011 — I started by making a database website for a company with no prior experience other than World of warcraft Private servers (used alot of mysql there), took around a month and a half but when i was done i knew alot of the language (still have to get help from the people on this website every now and then, but every time i do its a learning Experience)

The best advice i could give is to just start building.. Try as hard as possible not to copy and paste stuff, Read through it. Understand it. Than do what you will with it. Or go do what everyone one else says and grab a book although i could never sit there and just read about syntax and variables, not my cup of tea.
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@DexterMorganJul 02.2011 — 
The best advice i could give is to just start building.. .[/QUOTE]

I completely agree, I started learning PHP and other web technologies by making simple applications which were fun at the time e.g. price comparison/web page scraping apps.

A popular learning project seems to be a basic blog, so much cool stuff you can learn by creating your own basic blog.
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@NogDogJul 02.2011 — Books can help with the theory, however. Learning syntax is one thing, but learning which syntax to use in which situations is a bit different -- plus there are a lot of bad examples out there in any code you might find on the web (including anything I wrote, especially if it's more than a year or two old ? ). And things like database normalization is easier to learn by doing some reading (whether books or on-line tutorials) than by osmosis from looking at other applications (which may or may not be normalized).

But certainly there is no reason not to start slinging some code and learning from your mistakes from the beginning.
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@DerokorianJul 02.2011 — 
i could never sit there and just read about syntax and variables, not my cup of tea.
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TBH I've never just sat and read the books, the good books generally come with a lot of examples and practice exercises. So its "Here's how this syntax works, here's an example of using it, here's something you can do to add on to previous exercises" instead of just looking at something and doing it, its really a build on top of itself type thing. So you get the basics before doing more advanced things, instead of just diving into advanced, as very few scripts are actually basic if they do anything cool.
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