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I have learned php at work, just because I had to because it's the main language I work with, and I'm glad ! Before starting with php I had about one year of experience with ASP and javascript, so the principle of webprogramming was there, which helped me a lot with learning php.
Also I had a lot of help from the http://www.php.net chm version of the manual, I have it open at least once a day every day.
If Internet Tutorial includes The Great PHP Manual, lots of articles around the web, other people's code (classes) and internet tutorials, then that's my choice.
well, i learned from a combination of both the internet tutorials and books, but i put books as my choice since i learned the most through them. However, i'd been coding in HTML since the early days of the internet, and having prior knowledge of programming with delphi and visual basic helped tremendously.
I took over a site which had been using PHP and started learning then. I bought a couple of books which got me started but I haven't touched them in ages. I now tend to find most things at php.net, stuff I remember others doing here and google.
Well it's kinda hard to say any one resource... I learnt a lil' from an old mySQL book..lol... and some from Internet... but most of it i learnt from Trial and Error + PHP manual....
Funny, I got into PHP beacuse of include() rather than anything. Then just using include() on the template files got boring then I started researching on other methods. Then I bumped into PHPDN and I learned my most around here. Now I got the PHP Bible Edition 2. It's nice...
Started programming in ASP, found it to be left wanting at the end of the day, a friend of mine suggested PHP and a year, several books, lots of cigarettes and coffee, and hella tutorials later I am addicted.
Nay wrote:Funny, I got into PHP beacuse of include() rather than anything. Then just using include() on the template files got boring then I started researching on other methods. Then I bumped into PHPDN and I learned my most around here. Now I got the PHP Bible Edition 2. It's nice...
-Nay
Know what you mean about the include() thing, Nay. That's exactly why I started out learning bits of PHP.
Added the Evil Walrus script for users online (which I've learnt to tinker with) and have moved on from there, learning different things when I've needed to.
The best quality learning for me was a combination of books, the manual, and this wonderful forum.
Internet tutorials helped for more advanced topics and open source applications, such as phpBB and postNuke, helped because they are working products of expert programmers which show how to organize and produce everything in an efficient/clean/professional way.