Good Tutorials?

[Anon]

Hello, I am trying to learn PHP on my own and I need some good tutorials. Ive been searching and only to find crud. I need one that goes step by step and introduces it and where to type the code, if possible. Please e-mail me the sites because I will forget to check here...LOL [e-mail]
Thanks in advance, Andrew

[troinfo]

Hey Andrew,

Try these books 1. "PHP Fast & Easy Web Development by Prima Tech" and 2. "Beginning PHP 4 by Wrox" they have helped me more than a lot. Use the web to find those answers that you can't always find in the books.

Good Luck.
-Troy

[ziggs]

Yea the one by WROX is sweet. I think we have had this disscussion before. I don't know. The one that is super easy to follow and gets your mind working is PHP for Web Professionals By Princeton Hall. That book gets you thinking of what you can do. Covers basics. As for tutorials. Hrmm. Not a lot on them considering its coding. Just rip apart source code. www.sourceforge.net and then always look at www.php.net But always, always, always, keep your eye on phpbuilder.com! 🙂
Ziggs

[Anon]

Check out this site for helpful information for beginners:

http://www.hvt-automation.nl/yapf/faq.php

And good tutorials:
www.devshed.com
http://www.onlamp.com/php/

[zicco]

Personally, I did not learn PHP throught any tutorial or book.
I think this is the best way to go:
-First, if you are not motivated (have a goal in mind or really like this stuff), it wont be easy.
-Learn HTML (very easy)
-Get some basic programming knowledge (loops, variable, functions, etc...). You can look for JavaScript or C tutorials if you do not find anything decent about PHP. PHP's syntax is very similar to these languages.
-Download the PHP documentation in CHM format (precompiled HTML - only for Windows!) from the official website (www.php.net). It is the best documentation I have ever seen!
...and start experimenting