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[Will0wz]

I really want to learn these so that I can use them for my web design. I have been told to use tizag.com as a Tutorial but I find that it doesn't explain it very well. Is there a good tut that is on P2L that someone has used and now they are v.good at it, I've tryed to look but no luck. I also want to find a free hosting service where PHP & MySQL is enabled.

Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks.

Will0wz

[Case]

http://www.w3schools...php/default.asp and then move onto the tutorials in P2L.

[Archangel]

If you're not opposed to buying a book I've always enjoyed the "Sams teach yourself..." books. They don't go real in depth but I've found are very good for beginners.

Sams PHP, MySQL and Apache book on Amazon.com

And I agree with Case, even having been programming for a few years, I still frequently go to W3schools

[curthard89]

i always find the best way to learn is hands on...

think of a little project...say....a gallery in php and mysql or even a read from dir gallery

find out what needs to be done, whats involved, then follow tutorials on it and make it, all i did.....2 months down line look at me.....building tht tutorial cms that seems to be very popular

always add curthard89@hotmail.com

which is my msn, im willing to give up time to help people learn.

good job...ncie to see people learning instead of just saying, do this for me

[desbest]

Install XAMPP
If you have Microsoft Windows, choose microsoft windows, it doesn't mean you'll be getting a windows server.
XAMPP is used to GENERATE php files DYNAMICALLY on your computer which you create to be shown on an internet browser.
It's like website hosting with php+ftp+blah blah on your pc.

Also get PHP Designer

when i wanna learn php (this is my 7th day learning it)
I jumped to TechTuts tutorials because they are great to start off with

Then used the messages.php to learn how to insert and delete data from a mysql database by changing all references to the pmessages mysql table to my other database tables

Then I learnt how to update data from the database (eg. private messages, sites, etc.)

If I'm stuck i checkout TechTuts, w3schools, tizag and Pixel2Life.
PHP basically is about figuring out how to do things yourself with common sence.

Edited by desbest, 11 May 2007 - 04:48 PM.

[Case]

On books I bought the PHP&MYSQL for Dummies but whilst it was useful to have a paper explanation I acutally found myself using the internet much more for looking things up.

For an editor I think Eclipse is probably the best. Download the basic package and then the PHP module for it. It takes a little while to acclimatise to it but once you have its very very good as it has full project management and has the PHP language installed and so will flag up errors for you. Its a dream for debugging and its open source and can accommodate mode languages with the right module

As Curt said, the best way is to find yourself a project. Start small but it gives you something to work for instead of learning aimlessly and makes it a lot more interesting!