i need to learn php/mysql

Post by **dnoyc** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:44 am

so i need to learn php/mysql fast. can you guys point me to some good places to pick this up?

thanks.

Post by **mjrpes** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:05 am

The site webmonkey provides good tutorials; it's where I learned php/mysql.

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/prog ... index.html

Post by **dnoyc** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:10 am

cool, thanks.

Post by **ilumos** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:35 am

May not be the prettyest forum out there, but there sure are a lot of very helpful and experienced people frequenting:

http://forums.devshed.com/php-development-5/
http://forums.devshed.com/mysql-help-4/

(Devshed has forum sections for all the popular programming/scripting languages out there too)

And also, the PHP manual is an absolute godsend, loads of useful info on every aspect of PHP.
(Unlike VB

) Never have I written some PHP code and thought "why the hell is it doing that, that makes no sense at all".

Great language, great database software. Good luck!

Post by **Underpants?** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:55 am

google provides a nice search feature

Post by **diego** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:31 am

http://www.php.net :icon14:

Post by **dmmh** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:41 am

Just download a ebook, best thing you can do, because you will find lots of good examples for a particular task to accomplish. Downloading a few scripts of the web aint gonna do you much good nor will reading php.net do you any good (not that you can do without it), as you wouldnt have a clue in the beginning where to even start, as you wouldn't understand the basic syntax.

And how fast is fast?
If you have to master it completely and are a html noob aside of that, dont expect to be up to standards within 6 months, given you still have a study/ day job next to it that is

I used this one and it is excellent!

Post by **dnoyc** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:28 pm

dmmh wrote:Just download a ebook, best thing you can do, because you will find lots of good examples for a particular task to accomplish. Downloading a few scripts of the web aint gonna do you much good nor will reading php.net do you any good (not that you can do without it), as you wouldnt have a clue in the beginning where to even start, as you wouldn't understand the basic syntax.

And how fast is fast?
If you have to master it completely and are a html noob aside of that, dont expect to be up to standards within 6 months, given you still have a study/ day job next to it that is

I used this one and it is excellent!

thanks for the links. i'm looking to pick up a usable amount in a couple of weeks. and i don't have any other school/day job, this is my job. i'm also not a total noob, since i've done sql work before, just never used php.

edit: also i'm not looking to start my own projects so much as jump into existing code and start changing things. building from the ground up would have been pretty easy.

Post by **inolen** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:34 pm

php.net is one of the most helpful places.

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:47 pm

On an entirely unrelated sidenote: one of our programmers was just validating his code with one of those validator thingies, and when it gave him a few errors he got so upset he threw a fit and unleashed the validator upon itself, which made things crash.

...made me laff anyway

Post by **dmmh** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:18 pm

debugging: the nightmare of any webmaster/ coder

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:20 pm

validating isnt debugging though. if its not valid bfore you start debugging you should be shot anyways.