What Is the Best Way to Learn PHP?

What Is the Best Way to Learn PHP?

What is the best way to learn scripting languages such as PHP?
The answer depends upon your learning style. Since every person has his own learning style, what works best for someone else may not be the best for you.

People learn and take in information through their five basic senses. On the practical side, it is unlikely that you’ll learn much about scripting PHP from sniffing or tasting it. That leaves the sense of hearing, the sense of sight, and the sense of touch.

Aural Learning – The Sense of Hearing
If you are an aural learner, the best way for you to learn scripting languages is by talking with people who are familiar with them and can explain how PHP works. You may wish to take a class where you can ask questions from a live teacher or join a forum that allows you to ask your questions there.

Visual Learning – The Sense of Sight
Visual learners often find that trying out one of the many online tutorials is the best way for them to learn how to use PHP code. Most tutorials ask you to download a program that will allow you to test the codes on your own computer. You learn by copying existing codes and then editing them to see what changes.

Kinetic Learning – The Sense of Touch
A tutorial is a good starting point for the kinetic or hands-on learner as well. These have the advantage of giving specifically directed mini-assignments where you get immediate feedback on the action you performed. Sooner or later, most kinetic learners want to jump out of the tutorial and “just do it” by practicing on their own.

Traditional Learning – Reading
Books remain an important tool for learning. Primers written in non-technical language help beginners of any learning style. Later, after grasping the essentials and the jargon of scripting, reference books can augment your basic knowledge.

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Modern versions of PHP are object oriented just as modern versions of C/C++ are. In fact, PHPs relationship with the C programming language is so close now that it is possible for developers to write extensions in C to add additional functionality to the PHP language.

18 Responses to “What Is the Best Way to Learn PHP?”

  1. monkeymanbob says:

    Nice work, you did pretty good.

  2. champ0y says:

    You’re really good man. You’ve got excellent talent.

  3. Faithless863 says:

    hm i couldn’t tell the difference between photograph and painting comparing the final resault.

    This is sick

  4. lidiabarbarita says:

    Very nice!!

  5. Andy says:

    The best way to learn any new language is to have a necessary project. If you need to invent one do it, but follow your requirements through… the devil is in the details.

  6. Sibe Husky says:
  7. confusedBoi says:

    first read good tutorials on PHP, MySQL on http://www.w3schools.com

    then check some sites often to gain even more knowledge like:
    http://woork.blogspot.com
    http://php.about.com
    http://net.tutsplus.com

    and many… fire up Google???!!!

  8. superchode20164 says:

    amazing! Willy teach me how to paint like you!

  9. TheTroubadourMusic says:

    :O

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    how is this not a real photo?

  10. WickedWoods says:

    Download and install WAMP server on your windows computer. Then you can use php on your local system for testing and playing around instead of having to upload to a server always. I am using this and so far I like it a lot (I am fairly new to php myself):
    http://www.wampserver.com/en/
    Want the (extensive) cliff notes? Go here:
    http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp
    Or go straight to the source for Mega Info:
    http://us.php.net/
    http://us.php.net/manual/en/

  11. mrmoskowitz says:

    Use OSCommerce. It's the biggest and best, plenty of community support.

    http://www.oscommerce.com

  12. Forbidia says:

    Brilliant Willy, Just Brilliant =D

  13. Josh says:

    tizag is my favorite to start out with beginning

    and w3schools of course

    and depends what your trying to do with it, e.g if your trying to create a guestbook look at previous scripts and see how they did it, there are tons of tutorials out there on how to do a lot, i even saw something of how to send sms with php I think

    http://www.tizag.com

    http://www.w3schools.com

  14. James Bond says:

    W3Schools website is a wonderful place to learn PHP. Just follow the tutorial and examples and it should give you a good starting point to get you going. You can do PHP development as long as you have a single computer. Go to Wampserver's website and download the software that will have your computer run as a server. Using the same computer, you can program and see your results at the same time.

  15. warah110 says:

    Perfect.

  16. Brandon says:

    There is a user on youtube by the name of thenewboston. He has good PHP tutorials and a host of other ones.

  17. Andrew G says:

    I'm not sure about Perl, since I've never done it, but these sites may be useful.

    http://us3.php.net/ – PHP's manual. Unlike most manuals, this is REALLY helpful.

    http://www.w3schools.com/ – A GREAT website with examples and explains things thoroughly.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ – I use this a lot for MySQL. Just go to an article like this: "Syntax (SQL)." For instance, for the INSERT syntax, it would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_(SQL)

  18. avb17018411 says:

    woww that’s really relax and beatiful soung .good picture of jhony depp !

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