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php books for rookies

Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 1:09 am
by andrewcy
I am new into the php environment and i want to learn how to program in php, starting from the basics to the most advanced coding and I am looking to buy a book / or books to get me started. Any good suggestions? thanks

Re: php books for rookies

Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:47 am
by it2051229
well do not buy a book because there are a lot of tutorials online.... well to be honest, I started at w3cschools tutorials on PHP and MySQL but only tackles the basics.. then after finishing that, I tried to create simple projects out of my basic knoweldge such as a simple login system, some information system, some password storage, a shoutout box, .. anything that i could Imagine.. but on your way of doing stuff, you get to tackle problems which you were not able to learn on your basic PHP and that's where you ask help for other people and "google" and they give you solution and you get to realize this new stuff that you can do with it. And then when I get to grasp a lot of stuff already I started creating content-based management system websites such as something like wordpress, or drupal, or joomla so I had to combine all the stuff I have learned on this new projects... then Ajax came, then that's another story..... anyways my point here is that, I can do it without a book it's just a matter of patience of understanding and reading and doing.. so yeah you can too.. Oh and before you start PHP, i suggest you should have a deep understanding on creating HTML pages, and javascripting, and CSS so when you start learning PHP, you got endless possibilities of stuff that you can do and think of.