Tips on learning PHP?
October 3, 2010
3 comments
Hello… Im a young web designer and I would like to improve my coding skills. I am starting work on a MMORPG game, although I don’t have much experience with PHP. I’ve tried to learn it through phpvideotutorials.com and I also check out a library book, but the library book smells like cigar smoke and gives me a headache (only one the library had) and the video tutorials… they are getting too boring and I havent learned anything in the past 2 days.
Note: I know some PHP, and I know everything in HTML thats possible to know. Ive been web designing since I was 6.
don’t use videos or books, this will take you a lot of time, just google what you need: example “how to use strings in php?” or “how to define variables”… i think this will be the fastest way to use php, good luck
If you are a hands on learner like me, I would recommend downloading some scripts and going through them to see what is happening with the code. If you don’t have any coding experience I would recommend starting off with some html and then moving onto php. But a good site to pick up some scripts is:
hotscripts.com
Well, you can start by getting hold of some scripts from a relatively small length to a bigger size just to see how they work and function. Also, if you want to find books on PHP, you should find another library or buy the books if you can because for many people they do help but not always. Videos aren’t too good because you need to keep pausing and code many times for a tutorial. Plus, it’ll eventually become easy.
But this is just me recommending what you should do. Try and learn PHP the same way you learned HTML if that does any work for you. Remember though: You don’t have to know absolutely everything about PHP[even though more is good]. Just know enough PHP to let you get by. But if you do want to learn everything about it, just learn the more you get older. I’m a young web designer/developer and I don’t know everything about PHP but I’m still writing scripts in it. It’s all about trial and error.