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New to PHP

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Hey There,
It's my first time being here and I find it great to use this site as a source down the road regarding that I don't know anything about PHP, besides its a server-side script and how to output a simple text =/

I don't really have a game plan or a relying manual on how to learn PHP, so I'm here to ask other users to help me build my knowledge of being a developer which I'm looking forward too. I was just curious as of where have users started learning PHP? What site resource that I could use? And is there any valuable information to know?

I've heard of arrays, functions etc. but I really don't know what its used for when trying to develop a site.

I do have a bit of knowledge on HTML, but is there any other language that I'd need to learn in the near future or now for the project I'll practice on and play around with when I have built some sense of humor regarding PHP.

Thanks in advance for feedbacks and I'd love to hear you share your experiences with PHP.

Regards,
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Re: New to PHP

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W3Schools Online Tutorials is one of my favorite places to go either for referencing or doing tutorials. They have a great php tutorial.

As for becoming a developer, I don't think I'd start with php as my first language. Having an understand of arrays, stacks, pointers, and other objects is very important in EVERY language. I love the power of C and would recommend anyone new to developing to start with C and then look at C++ or Java after learning C.
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Re: New to PHP

Post by Oo 0 Oo Oo »

Hey,
Thanks for replying, although I've been to W3Schools Online Tutorials to learn PHP, I got mixed up when coming to there example and how could I use arrays, functions etc. in another way or what are they mainly used for? I think I'd need to shoot myself for this for being such a nub, but I'll try to get a better understanding.

As far as learning other languages such as C, C++, Java/Java Script before PHP, which is the easiest language to learn first? And are their any level of difficulty when coming to these set of language?

Thanks again for your help. If others got any other set of recommendation's I'd love to read it!

Regards,
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Re: New to PHP

Post by Benjamin »

1. Online Tutorials. (search for PHP Introduction, PHP Tutorials, Introduction to PHP, etc)
2. The manual. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ learn about basis syntax, control structures, comparison operators, functions, classes etc.
3. Books. A good book will teach you more than a dozen tutorials.
4. Learn about protocols, ftp, http, ssh etc.
5. Learn about Linux and the server software. Apache, MySQL, php.
6. Always have error reporting and display errors turned on when you write code.
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Re: New to PHP

Post by Oo 0 Oo Oo »

Hey there,
Thank you so much for also responding to my thread. As I mentioned earlier I didn't have a game plan, but I'm on my way in learning the things you've mentioned.

Thanks,
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