how to become expert in php

varunvijay

i am a new bie and learning now lynda essential and beyond basic for php.

is these courses enough to become expertise or what should i learn after it....

please guide me

sneakyimp

I don't think any single course will make you an expert. You'll just need to put in the time building things. The more you code, the more you try, the more of an expert you will become.

NogDog

Write code. Test it. Re-factor it. Test it again.

Look at how other people code, in forums like this, on GitHub repos, open source projects, etc. -- remembering that there is probably more poor code than great code out there. 🙂

Write some more code. Don't forget to test it, re-factor it, etc.

Once you've gotten down the basics of object-oriented PHP, read Matt Zandstra's book "PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice".

Keep writing code (and testing and re-factoring).

varunvijay

thank you so much now i get myself clear in learning... and how to learn

sagabizsolution

If you are a beginner to start learning php in http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp
You can find easy tutorials about php

peterlee1768

If you want to expert in PHP then you should try to solve related tutorials. To become an expert in PHP you give proper time of PHP sites as above suggested w3school.com is one of the best sites to learn PHP.

sneakyimp

W3 schools is a terrible site. Much of their information is inaccurate and/or out-of-date. There are better, more accurate sources of information on CSS, Javascript, etc.

ctyler

Find something cool that you want to build and do it. It sounds like you have the academics part down. No you need to work on the practical application. Build something!

Weedpacket

NogDog covered the essentials (write code, read code, write code); don't restrict yourself to PHP.

varunvijay

Weedpacket;11049681 wrote:
NogDog covered the essentials (write code, read code, write code); don't restrict yourself to PHP.

other than php what should i learn

ctyler

Hello varunvijay,
JavaScript and HTML would be recommended.

ctyler

That was supposed to be HTML5 - sorry

NogDog

Every programming language you learn tends to make you better at the ones you already know. Just keeping within the realm of those used at least somewhat commonly in the web-dev world, you could look at Java (not to be confused with JavaScript), Ruby (almost always with the Rails framework in web-dev), Python, and C#/.NET, just to name a few. Of those, I might suggest Python to be one of the easier ones to grok, and it's moving up the charts these days in terms of usage in web applications.

varunvijay

thanks for suggestions

varunvijay

do you all had a feeling when you learn this we are not going to be an expert .....like that as i am having it now

Weedpacket

One kind of place to become acquainted with different languages is a chrestomathy where the same program is written in multiple languages such as printing the lyrics to 99 Bottles of Beer or the Computer Language Shootout. The canonical first program of any language is Hello World, so there are a lot of examples for that. See also Rosetta Code.