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Best PHP Learning resource?
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 1:29 am
by m3mn0n
What would you say?
Books?
if ya got a title hook it up
Web Tutorials?
u got a link? post it!
Classes?
ugh...school....
hmm?
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 1:43 am
by hob_goblin
Trial and error, plus the manual.
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 3:09 am
by Zeceer
The first book I bought so that i could learn some basics was "Sams Teach Yourself PHP4 In 24 Hours." That's a pretty good newbie book. Now I'm on reading "Wrox Proffesional PHP4." Wrox got some awesome books.
But I have agree that error messages is grat learning. Even if they get so irritated some times that I just want to throw the computer out of the window

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 3:23 am
by twigletmac
Started with PHP Developer's Cookbook, PHP and MySQL Web Development books. Now I tend to really only use the manual and if the internet's being a bit slow, Programming PHP by O'Reilly. This forum's great for learning new ways of doing things too.
Mac
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 3:27 am
by hob_goblin
I started with messing with other peoples coding to fix the html they used, then i just used the manual to look functions up...
I bought a book by Wrox, it is really nice... but by the time i bought it, it tought me more about HTTP and GET and POST and TCP/IP and the like than PHP...
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 6:07 am
by Johnm
The manual
Wrox's Beginning PHP4
This fourm
Direwolf
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 6:18 am
by jason
Core PHP Programming was my first book...after that, well, I just started buying books like crazy.
My personal favorites right now are two non-PHP books, one by Steven Krug called "Don't Make Me Think", and the other a wonderful CSS book by Eric Meyer, aptly titled "Eric Meyer on CSS".
Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 7:56 am
by llimllib
the manual plus O'reillys php/mysql book (which I recommend for people who've programmed before)
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 7:58 am
by nielsene
Books:
PHP4 Bible from IDX Press was my introduction, I still find it useful
Advanced PHP for the WWW Visual QuickPro Guide, was good for learning image/pdf manipulation
Prof. PHP from Wrox another good advanced book and of course the PHP O'Reilly book and The Manual.
(of course supplemented by various sql, PostGreSQL, and html books)
Tutorials: Jason's companion site is wonderful; phpBuilder is great too.
Classes: (not PHP specific, but ones that will stand anyone in good steed)
Introduction to Computer Science (text book: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Science aka SICP, MIT Press, absolutely wonderful for teaching the basics of computer science)
Introduction to Algorithms(text: Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest (2nd Ed with Stein also) aka "The CLR(S) book")
Software Engineering (we used a preprint text...)
To me those three classes form the foundation for any further work on large projects.
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 10:27 am
by gotDNS
brothers...

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 9:54 pm
by samscripts
There's a couple

of links on my new site to various tutorials that I think are pretty good resources for learning php.
Apart from the devnetwork sites, the following have lots of tutorials:
http://www.melonfire.com
http://www.sitepoint.com
http://www.devarticles.com
and my site,
http://www.phprd.net
as for books, I don't really know. I've got the PHP 4 Bible and used it a
bit, seemed quite good, but I haven't looked at it for months.
Hope this helps, Sam
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 11:38 am
by Takuma
I like looking up
PHP Builder when I get stuck with ideas.
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 12:14 pm
by gotDNS
Forums are also a nice resource for learning...don't ask me where u'd find a PHP forum though *shurg*
Also, search on google for 'PHP' or something...like i have and made a link for you:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U ... TF-8&q=php
later on, -Brian
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 12:26 pm
by m3mn0n
ttt 4 newbies

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 2:50 pm
by MattF
I just read other peoples code, edit it, get a load of errors and then scream for help, then I use #php @openprojects or the manual, some clever friends are also handy to help solve problems.