What is the best way to learn PHP?

Question

Ok im very good at HTML and stuff like that.. i can even do a little VB. I want to learn how to do PHP the most. What is the cheapest way and easiest method to do so?

Answer 1

In addition to all the other answers already posted, you'll find a lot of useful content just by searching for PHP Programming and PHP Source Code.

You'll learn much more by writing code and examining code that others have written.  You'll see different programming techniques, and ideas about how to write your own code.  Reusing code is very helpful and I keep a collection of functions and routines that are very helpful - like database access.

Keep copies of everything you write.  You'll be able to learn from your old code and notice how much you improve over time.

Answer 2

i taught myself by using http://w3schools.com/php .  I would recommend setting up an account with freehostia.com and testing all your php scripts there.

Answer 3

learn it from php.net , code as much as possible.

Answer 4

tizag is my favorite to start out with beginning

and w3schools of course

and depends what your trying to do with it, e.g if your trying to create a guestbook look at previous scripts and see how they did it, there are tons of tutorials out there on how to do a lot, i even saw something of how to send sms with php I think

http://www.tizag.com

http://www.w3schools.com

Answer 5

Free.. http://www.w3schools.com/