How did you learn PHP?

I certainly didn’t learn anything from you.

thats harsh.

I’ve learnt everything i know by reading online articals.

Angela’s tutorials really helped me understand what was going on when i first started.

Thanks Angela, you really helped me out.

I have to say I learned a lot from online sources such as Angela’s articles but the majority of what I have learned came from asking questions and reading. My favorite PHP book is PHP: For the World Wide Web by Larry Ulman and I also enjoyed The Sam’s series of PHP books. Petah go troll somewhere else, Angela keep the articles coming.

Online college course from Cerro Coso College plus online classes taught from Sitepoint as refreshers. I also like the books written by FriendsOfEd such as PHP Solutions, and PHP Object oriented Solutions.

Hi Angela,

When I was close to finishing my second BS, I took a ed2go course on Beginning PHP and MySQL back in 2008. I like what I was doing, so I went on to take the Intermediate course, studied books, including Beginner’s PHP MySQL 5.0, High Performance MySQL. I also began doing projects for free to get “real world” experience. Eventually, I started to land bigger projects and am now studying Ruby.

I have to say that although the lessons shown in your weekly About.com blog are simple, they really help emphasize understanding the basics..something I did not have a strong background in until I started reading your PHP MySQL learning snippets and subscribing to other developer blogs/posts. Thanks for your weekly dose of programming knowledge

I am still learning and I appreciate the help that you provide.

I have to have a project to work with to learn something like php. I agreeded to build a high school reunion webstie for all classes (40 years) to teach myself php and build dynamic webpages. Have little experience dabbling with html.

I perfer books to use and search online to fill in the gaps. Best books I’ve found are by Larry Ullman. Started with his basic book PHP 3rd editions and added a couple more.

I agree with the other comments, you have to know the basic, still learning.

thanks

I am learning php through different softcopy books and online materials especially in your site..These help me to do my final year project of online registration system for my university using php/mysql.

thanks..keep it up!

I think that Angelas stuff is aimed at basic users… so obviously petta or whatever is an advanced user… I think Angela helps those who want to learn the basics, after that the only way to learn is RTFM then play til you get it right.

Hello, sir i would like to ask that what is the scope of Php mysql training, what all topics should be covered and it is kinda bothering me … and has anyone studies from this course http://www.wiziq.com/course/5871-php-mysql-with-basic-javascript-integrated-course of core and advance java online ?? or tell me any other guidance…
would really appreciate help… and Also i would like to thank for all the information you are providing on java concepts.