Learning PHP

[Kevin Cozens]

At 02:32 AM 08/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Does anyone know of a good course to learn PHP from absolutely nothing?
>Before anyone tells me to RTFM, I would like to learn from someone else
>and ask questions :)

A course would be one way to learn PHP. Do you need one? It would depend on 
your background. If you have used Perl and/or C in the past then you may be 
able to pick up one of those "Teach Yourself PHP in X Days" type books. I 
have been programming a long time (over 20 years) and have used a variety 
of languages. A decent reference text is all I need to pick up the specific 
syntax of a new language and to learn what are the available built-in 
library routines to do various things. I went through the first 8 hours of 
an "...in 24 hours" book on PHP in about 1 hour and another 2 hours for the 
next several "hours" in the book.

Picking up a book can be much cheaper than most formal courses and you can 
go at your own pace. It will depend on how much programming background you 
have, if you have used languages with similar syntax, and if you can pick 
things up from books easily (some people can't). YMMV (Your Mileage May 
Vary before someone asks. :-)

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