May 17, 200719 yr Please post any reccomended links, nooks or other materials that have helped you learn or improove in PHP. I'll then add them to this post. Books: Name: PHP and MySQL Web Development, 3rd Edition (Paperback) Author: Luke Welling , Laura Thomson Amazon Price: Price: £24.09 Topics covered: The MySQL Database Server (for both Unix and Windows) Accessing MySQL Databases Through PHP Scripting (the letters don't really stand for anything) Database Creation and Modification PHP Tricks in Order of Increasing Complexity--everything from basic SQL queries to secure transactions for commerce Authentication Network Connectivity Session Management Content Customisation Book Description The definitive best-selling book on combining these two open source tools to create dynamic Web sites - updated for PHP 5 and MySQL 5. A new, updated, and revised edition of the best-selling #1 book on any open source programming topic. New edition updates the material and code to MySQL 5 and PHP 5, and includes new coverage of PHP's object model and validation. Readers have consistently praised the book's clear, practical approach - some have even called it the best technical book they've ever read. Review: This was the first book I bought on PHP. Its very indepth, and expects you to know a modest ammount of PHP prior, however the PHP crash course ( Chapter 1) is very good for getting you up to speed with the rest of the book. Overall, I highly reccomend it, but perhaps for the more intermediate PHP programmer, or a C# programmer looking to expand to the web. For the true novice, look to my other reccomnedations, but for the above mentioned market, I give ths book: For Value (This book has almost 1000 pages) For begginers, check out another book For Content Overall: Great book, you can buy it here http://www.amazon.co.uk/PHP-MySQL-Web-Deve...7528&sr=8-3 Websites: PHP.net.:- The Official PHP Site, with the superb documentation. Recommended for people who are up and running in PHP. By-the-by A great reference tool. pixel2life.com PHP section- One of the best tutorial sites out there. Coe#vers everything you can think of, including, PHP. Find tutorials on many topics such as website integration, datbase interaction, or just the basics, this site rocks. techtuts.com/forums- Another large web design community, with many great coding tutorials, PHP been very popular. There you can learn more about PHP, or download and utilise the usersystem they have created. This site is the dogs.
May 17, 200719 yr Why can't I use fast reply here >_<? the best way to learn php is from someone else, and I don't mean by someone over msn, but where you can actually see each other, I know that sounds weird I think it's called 'real life'. When you talk to someone experienced in php in person you'll learn a lot faster, but I guess not everyone knows someone in their neighborhood that is experienced in php. Wildo
May 17, 200719 yr Author Like hands on learning? People learn many ways though wildo, so I want to cover them here. I am lucky, I can learn pretty much anyway. Some people prefer video tuts, or a book, or a website. We can cover em all though
May 17, 200719 yr Author talking about video tutorials, they rock sampsonresume.com Wildo Cool, will check them out, and add them later.
May 17, 200719 yr A good way to learn to code is to write SUDO code first. If you don't know what this means it is basically writing your program without a programming language to work out how you will do it etc, then work out the PHP code behind it by looking around on the internet. For example: Sudo: if name = surge then return true else return false endif PHP: if($name = 'surge') { return true; } else { return false; } That way you know what you will actually do, before you do it, give it a try next time you don't know how to do something.
May 17, 200719 yr Author A good way to learn to code is to write SUDO code first. If you don't know what this means it is basically writing your program without a programming language to work out how you will do it etc, then work out the PHP code behind it by looking around on the internet. For example: Sudo: if name = surge then return true else return false endif PHP: if($name = 'surge') { return true; } else { return false; } That way you know what you will actually do, before you do it, give it a try next time you don't know how to do something. hmmm cool. never heard of that. if($ben == "thankful for the sudo tip"){ echo "cheers mate"; } else { echo "woooooop tis sunny"; }: $ben = "thankful for the sudo tip"
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