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PHP

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:53 pm
by OX 3
i was wondering if anyone here could teach me PHP.

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:28 pm
by JAM
First; I don't speak for everyone of course!

PHP is easiest learned by either knowing someone in person that can sit with you, point and explain OR by reading. Lots of reading.

The good thing about PHP is that the reading part is done fairly simple, even if the funds are low or not available at all.
Books, tutorial, the very often forgotten php.net manual and it's usercomments, this (and others) board(s) is really everything you need.

But hey, if there is a kind soul out there, great. =)

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 7:54 pm
by nigma
If you are serious about learning PHP and have $24.99 I would recommend "Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (Second Edition)." It is an excellent starter book. Also, if you get started and run into troubles I would be happy to troubleshoot with you.

You can email me at my nigmanet address: nigma AT nigmanet DOT net

I also have posted plenty of links on the nigmaNET site: http://www.nigmanet.net (Resource Section -> Programming)

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 11:50 pm
by Gen-ik
I learnt PHP on-line, mainly from this Forum, but also through working out how other peoples code was put together.

I can now happily say that I create all of my own code without having to use anyone elses... but I'm still a regular visitor of forums.devnetwork (a) because it rocks, and (b) because you can never know enough PHP.

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 11:58 pm
by uberpolak
If you're like me - and I know I am - online resources will be the best way to learn. What I would do (rather, what I did), would be to find simple scripts available, and try to figure out how the commands work. Eventually you can try this with differently functioning scripts (ie start with outputting text/html, move on to databases, then classes). It helps if you have some kind of background in programming already, but that's not entirely necessary. A good reference book and the PHP.net manual will help endlessly.

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:57 am
by nigma
Even if you find that by reading code you can learn how some functions *work* I would still recommend taking advantage of as many learning sources as possible (i.e. books, people in person, people on forums, tutorials online, scripts).

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:04 am
by Dale
Look at other peoples coding, wanna know how to make your own guestbook? look at others guestbooks around the net and learn from there code and then you can make your own :) I've made my own :D

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:18 am
by devork
can you find best php teacher other than net. :roll:

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:20 am
by Dale
nope... the net and books are the powerfullest teacher :) (Even teachers have to read the books to get the knowledge:))

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:55 am
by Nay
Yeah true, teacher's get <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> when you try to outsmart them :D.

I mean seriously, my school should get a better teacher than one that teaches us how to paste in MS Word O.o

-Nay

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:59 am
by Dale
schools are stupid, currently at my school they are leaning how to create webpages in Front Page... drag and drop stuff, and theres me... open NOTEPAD..

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<html>
<head>
<title>Teachers Suck...</title>
</he...
They need 2 classes, 1 for under experienced people and the other one for experienced people :D

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:05 am
by OX 3
FRONT PAGE SUCKS!!!!!!!! i do all my html and php(that i k now) in Notepad

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:07 am
by Dale
Notepad rules the world and its sister :)

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:08 am
by Nay

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<cough>Zend</cough>
-Nay

[Edit: Added CODE for eyecandy. Sorry, had to due to your sig. ;) --JAM]