Hi Anthony, > Hey, i'm kinda new around here and just tinkering around > with php. My question to you guys is how did you learn? by > reading or by taking apart scripts and adding your own > style or what? I'm very curious.
Welcome :) There's no substitute for hands on learning. Find a project that scratches an itch - a todo list application or CD inventory system for example - and try to build it yourself. When you run into issues hit Google, read the manual or source code of an existing, similar program. Personally, my watershed for 'getting' PHP was to take a 2 or 3 day class with one of the folks on this list about 5 years ago. This got me set up with a development environment (Zend Studio), a basic set of tools (phpMyAdmin, local copy of the PHP manual), and a list of resources to consult for questions or existing solutions (phpclasses.org). If you're specifically looking for things to read first, check out the list Carlos Hoyos and I put together last year. It's showing its age, but most of the concepts and resources are still relevant: Recommended PHP reading list http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-read/ Daniel Krook Content Tools Developer - SCSA, SCJP, SCWCD, ZCE, ICDAssoc. Global Solutions, ibm.com _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
