How can i learn PHP from the very beginning?

Hi All!

Actually I love to learn new things and even i tried to alot to learn PHP from the very beginning but i didn’t find any way yet to complete my wish of learning PHP…Anyone can guide me or can tel me the way to learn PHP from the beginning.

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

Books! SP offers a few good ones too. Just check there, and your local bookstore. Work through the samples, and if you have questions, we can help.

use google there is thousands great tutorials on PHP

SitePoint also do a php course (https://learnable.com/courses/php-mysql-web-development-for-beginners-13)

For me, I can see all the code examples etc. the sort of make sense, but I’m just not clear as to how one thinks about solving a problem or the creation of code. I guess I’m not sure how to even start a project how does one think like a programmer? Reading all of the code excerpts looks like it makes sense but somehow I have a big hole in my learning as to the steps involved in creating a PHP program.

download xampp and start programming and reading.

You might be the type of person who actually needs a problem to solve first.

Go and find someone who needs a website. Find a small charity or a friend with a small business and offer to help them get online in return for a chat once a week in order to understand more about their business.

Make very very shallow commitments to them, don’t promise much at all, but try and over deliver. You are not out to disappoint them - and even if the worst should come, and you decide “…actually, I’m bored with this” then at least leave them with a nice single page website.

That’s what I did when starting out, and I recognise your plea about things not making sense, you have to have context.

I used this: http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

After learning the fundamentals, i started rebuilding one of my classic asp sites. That’s the best way to learn; Using a case study. Been a bit tough though finding the best “current” methods. A lot of tutorials out there use old methods for database connectivity [as an example].

Regarding IDE, i use phpDesigner v8. Very good.

Good luck.

You can definitely start learning from w3schools as its the best for the beginners. Even I did start from there and now I am a good programmer in PHP.

Well I bought online video tutorials, its like having your private tutor ready whenever and wherever you want, I also strongly advice 2 monitors so if you have a laptop connect it to another monitor and spread the view 2 second monitor also so you can watch and write coding in same time.

Being a knuckle head, I have a difficult time grabbing new concepts, but once I get the hang of things I usually becomes quite easy.

I learned a lot from this guy a few years back. I guess he has a way of getting through to the knuckle heads
Try killerphp.com