Me learning PHP #1
When a website fails, I turn to the programmers and say “Hey, I’m the designer, not the coder. I don’t know shit about this stuff”, and I want to change that attitude. I want to learn PHP. It’s kind of a scary thought, since I DO know how complicated php-code looks to me.
I’ll be doing a series of posts with my progress, and I will post links to resources that helped me creating stuff. I will also set up a url where you can follow my progress live (Since I didn’t start yet, there’s nothing to see).
Up to now I know nothing of PHP (I’m just the designer), but I hope to create a database driven php site in the future. I’ve set my standards high, because I like pushing myself.
Anyway, the first link I’ll give you will be the one to The Web Squeeze. The people there are a talented bunch and very helpful. I started there by asking the question if I should learn Django or start from scratch. Their advice was simple: start from scratch with PHP, because what if Django fails because of a php-error? You’d know how to handle it when you know PHP.
I also asked where to start, and I’m doing the same here. Please leave your comments with useful links on how to learn PHP and OOP.
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September 16th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Well, the mother of all resources and my favorite is the manual at PHP.net
http://www.php.net/manual/en/
I would start by reading the Getting Started and Language Reference sections and after that i’m sure you’ll be constantly using the Function Reference.
Good luck and have fun!
greetz, j
September 16th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
PHP does rule!
Good luck, it’s worth it.
September 17th, 2008 at 11:53 am
lynda.com helped me to learn, if you google you should find a free trial
September 29th, 2008 at 10:03 am
You talked about django. But django is not written in PHP.
It’s written in Python.
So if you want to work with Django you need to th learn Python language.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:56 am
@Victor well, I’d have to learn something else before using Gjango either way, and since php is more mainstream, I decided to do that.
Thanks for your comment!