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.
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.
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.
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].
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.