http://php.net
You can’t go five steps on Google without running into it, a good percentage of the web sites you frequent use it, people on the internet talk about it like common place … so what is PHP and why should I learn it?
PHP, in my honest opinion is the best and most versatile web server scripting language around, hands down. It is supported by nearly every major server platform and works with most server configurations. Additionally due to it’s near English-like syntax structure, the PHP learning curve is relatively small for beginners and practically negligible for seasoned programmers. Aside from all of that, the single greatest feature of PHP in my opinion; it is an open source technology (free)!
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There are many reasons for learning PHP, it has wide community adoption and it is virtually everywhere. Entire careers are based off of knowing PHP! More importantly, if you truly want to be successful on the Internet you are going to want to at least have a conceptual understanding of how the Internet, web servers and web scripting languages function. In my opinion, there is no better way to gain that understanding than to learn PHP!
Learning PHP can be struggling at times, as can learning anything but the frustrations that you may encounter are generally going to revolve around general programming concepts rather than a specific aspect of PHP. PHP will give you a great understanding of how computer languages talk to the computer and it is a great entrance into the world of computer programming! PHP will undoubtedly leave you wanting to learn additional languages!
The best way I have found to learn PHP is through examples. When I began my PHP learning endeavor, I would take a working script that I found on some dark corner of the internet and I would break it apart and reverse engineer it and evaluate what each line of syntax was doing. Breaking down working examples allowed me to learn different elements of the language in a pace much more suited to my learning style.
The CodeTree provides you with a wealthy library of scripts, snippets and examples for you to use and reverse engineer! You can use the scripts to help you learn like I have through reverse engineering.
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If you have a more traditional style of learning, there are several quality resources available to you for little or no money, all you need to do is Google! I have taken some of the leg work for you though, if you would like a great resource that can fast-track your PHP education then please consider Simple PHP by Rober Plank, a great PHP learning resource.
