Posted by BoneIdol on 11/20/07 12:38

On Nov 19, 11:33 pm, "phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com"
<phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 19, 5:17 pm, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > > Is there a good online resource for a beginner who wishes to learn PHP?
>
> > What (if any) programming languages do you already know? It makes a big
> > difference.
>
> > --
> > Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> > [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
> > [OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 13 days, 14 min.]
>
> > USD/EUR Exchange Rate Graph
> > http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/11/18/usd-eur/
>
> I've been doing little programming since I was 7 when I had a ZX81.
> Back then it was a very poor basic but I soon started assembly and
> pascal. From pascal I moved onto C and 68000 on the Amiga. At college
> I did a lot more with C++ and then dabbled with HTML. I never really
> dedicated enough time to any of them but now I have a lot of spare
> time so really should put the effort in.

I would really recommend you buy a book then, if you've been
programming before. They are usually much better written than the crap
you get on the internet. If you are determined to use the internet to
learn, I'd recommend:

http://www.w3schools.com/ and http://www.php.net/ to look up any weird
and wonderful functions.

Myself, I learned PHP from the book "Web Database Applications with
PHP & MySQL" from O'Reilly Books. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-
Database-Applications-PHP-MySQL/dp/0596005431/) It took me about 3
days to get to a stage where I could write a decent guestbook. If you
learn the first few chapters you're pretty much laughing, the later
chapters deal more with optimising your code than anything else.

Hope that helps.

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