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[samit]

Hi,sry for this kind of noob question,i know i can search answers on google,but i want read from this forum,so my question is:
How you started learning php?
How long it was take to learn basics from php?
What is best way to learn it?ebooks?,write some code my own?,read tutorials?

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[ArtoStiloz]

I started in PHP, since I found ASP very illogical and inconvenient, people told me also that PHP was the future, had a much easier syntax and was generally easier to find out. It took me 3 years before I really was successful with my projects and my programming developed. Today I have seen a welcome site, with more than 4,000 daily visitors and I am proud.

I learned it by downloading the small scripts various places, edit them and understand their actions. Otherwise, I would recommend articles and tutorials that are easy to come up with Google.

[John]

I first learned by reading a book. Then for a while (two years) I just developed my own scripts with the help of online resources and tutorials. Within the past year, I have been reading a lot of books and php references to further my knowledge.

[Orjan]

I had never seen php when I was thrown into a project to write a site where people could create their own sms text services and similar (which was taken down after just a few months, sadly).

Others had started off this project with php nuke, but I saw so much limitations, so we rewrote the full project, and I think it might be my C/C++ knowledge that just made php just work for me without much learning. Later on, I've been doing almost all my programing in php and just had the php website as reference.

[ArtoStiloz]

After all, I think that frankly is not that you learn more by reading books instead of tutorials and articles on the web.

[Orjan]

I'd say it depends on which level of programing you are.
if you have no skills at all, a tutorial book like xxx for dummies isn't that bad actually
but for more experienced, online tutorials can be almost as good, if you don't have lots of good time to spend while not at a computer.

[ArtoStiloz]

At that time, I would learn to program PHP, I bought a book .. I concise really not a **** of it. :)

[antoniyo]

Go for w3school.com and just start to learn php. also take help from your senior who have good programming skill. one's you have learn php you can start to make a website based on php.

[Whitey]

Well i am a visual learner so i had to learn by a video. Just reading was hard for me. If you want videos search them on torrents i think. But pretty much i just watched the videos over and over again for a week straight till i remembered most the in built functions. After learning that its easy to tie those in with a database.

[Whitey]

How much does it cost do you know?