Wold like to learn PHP

[Anon]

Hi my name is Leif and i am intrested in learning PHP.

Could any one suggest any books or web pages that are good for begginers lookin to learn PHP?

[Anon]

Core PHP is a good book...I started learning from there. Then I became familiar with the documentation at php.net to know the latest updates.

Diego

[tomkleijkers]

It also helps just trying and asking on forums. If you do it this way, you'll learn it the best!

[Anon]

...although it's a lot more productive for everyone to have a serious crack at it yourself: there's nothing like struggling away at something, crawling through the manual and books (and on the subject, I'd recommend O'Reilly's Programming PHP - entirely on the strength of their reputation, I admit, because the only PHP reference I've ever used has been the manual and forums like this), and getting a solution ALL BY YOURSELF! (Though maybe you shouldn't do what I had to do, and learn it while using it on a major site.)

It benefits you, because you learn all sorts of funky little things as you go, and it benefits those on the forums who help, because you can ask interesting questions clearly and you're more capable of understanding the answers, so that they don't feel like they're wasting their time.

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