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How much time it will Require

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:15 am
by pankajdeoria
Hello Friend,
Since I am New to PHP and you are experts so please tell me
How much time I have to spend to learn PHP and How much time it will take to learn complete PHP?

May You please Guide me to start means from where I can Start and How I can Start to Learn PHP?

Thank You to all.
Pankaj Gupta

Re: How much time it will Require

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:46 am
by susrisha
To start with if u want to learn php coding,
1. For IDE you better use http://www.eclipse.org
the download and installation is pretty simple. Download and put it in a folder
2. http://www.phpeclipse.com/
This will give you the php plugin for the solution.
There is no debugging i suppose for this but will do all the other things easily.
3. Learning php is pretty simple but if u want to start afresh http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp
Thats a very good place to start with.

4. I also have some presentations regarding the php. Will send it over in a while

Any help on any of the functions type in http://php.net/yourfunction name.

If you are planning to make it in a CMS based one, Joomla i think you are familiar with. Drupal is another such thing but you need to choose one and i dont think we can build that type of site as yours with them. We can however take the design concepts.

Re: How much time it will Require

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:07 am
by crazycoders
As a supplement to the previous poster...

To learn PHP, you may need 1 week or 1 year. It depends on your current skills in "general programming". The rest is just learning the new keywords as PHP isn't really different from any other language out there.

Note, php is not object oriented, but supports the creation of object. If you come from a C#, Vb.Net or Java environment, you will have more trouble starting up than if you come from lets say perl, c/c++, classic asp and such procedurial language.

Welcome to php man!