New to PHP

[Anon]

Hi All,

I am an Indian student pursuing my Masters in USA. I want to learn PHP. I have a good knowledge about HTML, DHTML, Java Script and other scripting lang. Please can any one help me out. I got to start from scrath of PHP.

[jlory]

Hi,

You may want to purchase Core PHP Programming, Second Edition, by Leon Atkinson. That book has helped me out quite a bit.

[[deleted]]

Forget books for a while, start by reading the manual and read some articles. Try some examples and read the manual again.

If you have experience with PERL you'll soon get the hang of it.

[Anon]

I think there are some tutorials at devshed.com and read the articles here. I learned totally online and by asking questions. I read these forums all the time to learn more. If you can do any language, you can do PHP. it is very straightforward.

[edwardsbc]

I agree the language is straight forward. Web development is not. Web developers need to understand the nature of their web server, HTTP, browsers, HTML, server side vs. client side, cookies, GET vs. POST, cookies, parsing, web and file system security, SQL, etc.

The PHP language itself is rarely the root of problems posted here.