Posted by kenoli on 05/29/07 14:29

I think the advice to do a search and see what you find is good, as
only you know what will provide an approach that works for you. There
really are lots of good tutorials on the internet.

That said, Larry Ullman's book on php and Mysql in the Visual
Quickstart series has been useful to me and two other people I know
just starting with php. I think it is especially good for people just
stating with programming as it actually explains every single line of
code in the examples offered and than provides a more general
explanation of php syntax, functions, etc.

When I was starting, a problem I had with many books is that they
would assume you understand a good part of each script they were
referring to, only explaining what they considered the key elements
and I would spend hours looking for references for the parts I didn't
understand.

Ullman also has an online discussion group that he monitors. He
usually answers questions related to his book pretty quickly.

php.net is useful and a final authority (usually), but I still find it
not so great for certain things, especially if you are just learning.
Since it is trying to provide an authority and cover every case, it
often gets very abstract and hard to follow when you are looking for a
simple syntax reference. Sometimes I find that reading it's syntax
shorthand is like trying to read a regular expression. I'd just like
a simple example.

--Kenoli

On May 28, 4:44 am, guruprakash.jagannat...@gmail.com wrote:
> As i introduced - I am new to PHP. So i need a good material to refer
> for PHP and learn more...
>
> Thanks in advance...

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