Posted by Rik on 11/16/23 11:50

Adam wrote:
> Lastly - I'd say you need to find a *real* project to try your PHP
> skills on. It's the best way. Find someone that might benefit from a
> database driven website or application and offer to do it for free.
> That way they can't complain if it goes wrong - and you'll be the one
> benefitting (in the long run) from your new skills.

Amen to that, it's how I started. And for further learning, I try to answer
as many questions as I can on forums & newsgroups such as this. There are
always problems you haven't thought of, situations that pose a challenge.
Apart from the first free projects I'd say I've learned most from others
asking questions, and asking myself how I would solve the problem.

> One final bit of advice - use the PHP site itself. It's translated
> into many languages - hopefully your native one too - but every
> description of every PHP function has comments and additions from PHP
> users below it. There's usually treasure there!

Comments on www.php.net are gold, indeed.
Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus

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