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I need PHP help


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If someone can just give me a few resources where I myself can learn PHP like websites, PDF files, or books, and the like. Thanks for your help :)


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How much do you know? The best PHP book I've ever come across is George Schlossnagle's Advanced PHP Programming. It's a little outdated; some of his "further reading" or "also see" are dead, but his content is fantastic, yes it does cover PHP5. It's still the best PHP book I've ever seen.

Of course as the name implies it assumes you already know PHP. So what resources should you use for the basics you ask? The depends on how you best learn. I just coded small projects (CMSes, other sites, CLI programs and a later GUI program or two). This practice teaches me PHP quite well. Specially when I get critical about my own code and start finding better ways to do things.

I also looked at code from open source projects. Though it's immensely boring it does teach things.

Also help others out in their PHP questions in public places. By making your code public you're inviting others to criticise your code, which is a good thing.

There are several articles/web sites out there that aim to teach basic PHP. I've never used any of them, at least not used one consistently enough for me to remember it. Looking at sites that php.net recommends I see phpfreaks and codewalkers which both look decent (when given a quick glance).

Oh, also download the documentation from php.net. That's my holy bible. I cannot manage without its function reference.


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what mido said


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thank you


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WhiteAcid wrote: Oh, also download the documentation from php.net. That's my holy bible. I cannot manage without its function reference.

Amen to that!


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Function reference = cocaine :love:


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No one knows this, but WhiteAcid is like my idol. He first helped me out with PHP on criticalsecurity.net back when I first started like a year and a half ago or somethin.. But yea, I know this is off topic, I just wanted to say thankyou WhiteAcid.