PHP -- Good place to start from ground zero

[bgresource.com]

I was wondering where a good place to start from ground zero in learning php is, I mean a complete utter ignorance of php, knowing nothing. I want to start learning the stuff ,who knows maybe even come good at but I first want to have a complete understanding of the basics and have my feet well planted on the ground about the subject/script in general.
P.S. - Excuse my grammar tonight I am pretty tired probably some missed place commas, but who cares.

[HumanClay]

I am also looking for some good resources for beginning PHP programming. I know some basics such as include and require... setting variables ... echo.. blah. But I want to start writing scripts for my web sites. Please help

[Kevin Yank]

My article, "Building a Database-Driven Web Site Using PHP and MySQL" provides a pretty good introduction to PHP in Part 3. As far as books are concerned, I highly recommend WROX Press' "Professional PHP Programming" (see my review here). They'll also be releasing "Beginning PHP4" within the next couple of months, which should also be quite good.

[HumanClay]

Thanks for that article. I have bookmarked it because I only briefly looked through it. I will actually sit down and read it later on

[mjames]

Originally posted by HumanClay
I am also looking for some good resources for beginning PHP programming. I know some basics such as include and require... setting variables ... echo.. blah. But I want to start writing scripts for my web sites. Please help

I'm interested in learning PHP, too. Thanks for the recommendations, Kevin.

[dekuro]

The article by Kevin is quite detailed and very helpful for the very beginning and is a good resource for later look ups. I learned (actually still learning ) PHP mostly from this forums and also from the forum at phpbuilder.com. Because in forums I can really specify my probs and ques and are almost answered within hours.

HTH

[pedro_gb]

By the way, I highly recommend any of you print that article for future reference. If you can get hold of any laser printer, print it!