PHP courses?

MIN2511 · 24-10-2008 12:16PM #1

Hello

I want to learn PHP, anyone know anywhere i can get night time courses? Or any guide on how to get started?

Cheers
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Webmonkey · 24-10-2008 12:18PM

I personally think you better off just self teaching from a book rather than wasting money on a course for just PHP.

PHP and MySQL Web Development is a fairly good book. http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Development-Luke-Welling/dp/0672317842

Then you can go onto more advanced topics later. Just my opinion though.

decob · 24-10-2008 12:56PM

yeah as webmonkey said, learning it yourself is far better than any course. A good book to get started... then move onto the php docs to learn more fuctions and how they work.. and if ya get really stuck - post here!

AARRRGH · 25-10-2008 05:35PM

Webmonkey wrote: »

PHP and MySQL Web Development is a fairly good book. http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Development-Luke-Welling/dp/0672317842

I learnt from the above book too.

Most PHP websites are simply reading from and writing to a database, and displaying some variables on screen. In PHP this is very straightforward, and could be learnt with a bit of googling.

PHP is the type of language which is easiest to learn by messing around with it.

daymobrew · 25-10-2008 09:51PM

I taught myself perl and then PHP by giving myself a project to do. It was easier than going the standard follow-the-notes route.

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