PHP Programming beginner

[subho]

Hello all

I am mainly a designer with 4yrs of experience.But I want to learn PHP as I need to learn for few projects.How should I start? I dont have any knowledge of C programming etc. Am I eligible to learn PHP? if anyone out there can help me out I'll be grateful.


regards
developersouvik

[DaveSawers]

Presumably you have some JavaScript experience and therefore have the basic grounding in what programming is about. In which case I would start here: PHP Tutorial

[deepsand]

PHP is general-purpose scripting language, with no pre-requisite required beyond basic programming concepts; for background, see PHP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .

In addition to the material above suggested, you can find a wealth of such at

php primer - Google Search

&

php tutorial - Google Search

Do not let your lack of programming experience deter you from learning this useful tool.

[subho]

Thanks a lot guys for your suggestions.

Regards-
developersouvik

[kgun]

Here A soft introduction to object oriented programming. is a related thread.


Here

• W3Schools Forum (Powered by Invision Power Board)
• SitePoint Forums: Resources, Design, HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, MySQL and more for your web site.
• Dev Shed Forums - Open Source web development

are some of, IMO the better programming forums.

Originally Posted by DaveSawers

Presumably you have some JavaScript experience and therefore have the basic grounding in what programming is about. In which case I would start here: PHP Tutorial

That is the site of the first of the above forums and that site has free certification as part of the education.

Advice: Since object oriented programming is so fundamental part of the Document Object Model (DOM), that is the W3C model for serious web developement, I urge you to learn object orientation from the very beginning. Don't use an uncertificed teacher if you wan't to learn it correct from the beginning.

One of my favourite quotes:

"The top of laziness is to make it correct from the beginning."

[copywriter39]

Subho thanks for posting this. I've had opportunities to work with clients whose sites are php and wondered if it would be difficult to learn.

[crossland]

If you have done any Javascript as part of your design, you'll find PHP more straight forward.

There are plenty of good PHP books out there - just make sure that they include PHP 5.

http://www.inspirotechnic.com