Why do you want to learn PHP? If it is to build some web sites/applications for yourself or friends, then there are various self teach sites/books etc as mentioned. It is easy to learn and use and there are good development tools around for free. Also the online support for it with free code and worked examples is excellent. However if you have not had any formal programing training, you need to be aware of security issues when programing web applications. There are good tutorials about that around as well.
If on the other hand, you are looking at web programming as a career, you need to be aware that because PHP is easy to learn and the tools are free, that there are lots of PHP developers about and as a result they are not paid as much as those who can program Rich Internet Applications in Visual Studio dot net. I personally believe there is a slight oversupply of PHP developers, however some dispute that. I know a friend of mine with a web application business finds PHP developers much easier to get than dot net developers. Also, to go for web development commercially these days involves learning Javascript to a deep level. Regards, Tony On Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:01:19 UTC+13, Andreas Hagen wrote: > > Hi, > I'm wanting to learn PHP but only have a limited programming background. > Are there any courses in Auckland coming up or any good websites to learn > PHP that the community can recommend? > > Regards, > Andreas > -- -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NZ PHP Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
