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[b941]

Hello all!

I learn PHP for about a month now and right now I'm going through OOP. It's pretty hard, especially because I face a lot of thing related to PHP but not exactly PHP, like HTML, CSS, SQL... They all can be in one page. It's extremely hard to read a code someone already created, trying to find what relates to what and where it all goes. And it's also hard to create my own code. And I was wondering - will it always be like that? Or after some time these things will become easier for me? How hard it will be in future to read a code someone created and modify it? I will make PHP my job and I have to be able to code well to earn money. That's why this situation makes me sad.

P. S. Please no advices like "change your job". A chose PHP as my job and only will go that direction.

[Epatron]

When I started to read PHP too, I was pretty confused and thinked same as you, but now when I just go n create pages with php codes, it helps alot!
So just read tutorials, and code sites with 'em, really helps !
PS: Im beginner PHP coder too! :P

[WingedPanther]

Write now, you are learning several different things all at once:
1) PHP syntax
2) Programming (separate from any language)
3) OOP
4) possibly also HTML, SQL, etc

As you get more comfortable with each of them, the process of reading/writing PHP will get much easier, and you'll be able to focus just on solving your problem, and not on what the code means or how to express what you mean.

[Orjan]

Repetition is the mother of all learning, so just repeat doing things with PHP in many different forms, and you will learn how to master it! Although, you'll never learn it all...

[Vaielab]

Reading a php code depends on who wrote it.
If someone wrote a code, where their php logic, some sql, html, some css, and maybe some javascript all in the same code, php can be very hard to read

But if he use different files to separate everything, and everything is at his place, php can be the most beautiful langage, and can be "easy" to read.

If you are learning oop, I suggest you should look for a mvc pattern. It might be a little bit too advanced, but if you are learning a new langage you should start with some solid base ;)

[bbqroast]

Yes but only if you try to learn,
its like a foreign language really- in fact that's what it is. After a year of very light study you will be confident enough to scim through a manual write your own code, etc, etc.

Probably only a month or two of decent study.