I am currently learning from 2 sources: 1. PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson - the only PHP book in my library and 2. http://hudzilla.org/php/ - the best PHP tutorial I have ever seen (there's a newer version of it at /phpbook, but i like the first version better) I also began learning at http://php.net/ but the other sources are better. How about you? Where did you learn PHP?

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From myself. I copied and pasted codes and snippets and worked it out...still got some way to go

PHP Bible...also

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I really don't know... I tried to learn ASP with eleven years old, but latelly I begin on PHP.. but I didn't know how to test my scripts, but IIS was easist... but when I does it, with 12 years old I liked more than ASP, I've downloaded loads of codes and tutorials (tutorials did never helped me) and requesting for help on mIRC when I got some problem, and now, with 14 years old I've 2 years of experience programing in PHP try to download simple codes to learn with then (but don't just copy, or you'll not learn nothing...)

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I started learning some ssmall stuff from snippets. But now I have PHP5-Fast&Easy Web Development, By: Julie Meloni. Its really neat and its very very easy to follow.

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I think I learned PHP by just googling for 'PHP tutorial' and looking at the php.net specs. I started out doing very simple things, just to learn a bit how PHP worked and then went through progressivly more complex tutorials.

I don't think php.net is that good for learning, but it's really handy once you know some PHP, and want to know how to use a certain function.

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I also googled PHP tutorial,I also just wing it most of the time. A few library books also helped me out.

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I don't really learn it I kind of make it up as I go.
I mean I don't even know the basics...well I know like TINY and then I use that to make something up and it then comes up as errors and then the errors help me to correct it..

Anyways I don't really use it that much but when I do i force my self to know it... you get me?
I ain't going on some friggin website and reading about it. thats a waste of time

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I have a PHP book (SAMS Teach Yourself in 24 hours), but I've barely cracked it. Everything I know about PHP is from using and looking at open source coding (mostly phpBB forums and mods). Actually, if you can stand reading through it, you can figure out what a lot of commands do and teach yourself just by looking at some open source. I can't really write much blind yet, but I can look at code and sort of understand what it does. (And I can write code if I have references. I just don't have many commands memorized yet.)

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I've learned it by myself, starting with expanding a normal phpBB forum with mods and hacks, made many errors and reinstall it all many times.
Did some reading through .php files and .tpl files and found a language in it not just a script the hardest thing was figuring out the syntaxes and algorythms in it, because all of these files work together as 1
When 1 file (especially php's) gets changed the tpl's wont work good too and vice versa...
Sigh I wich I only sticked to HTML

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I Learn PHP In PHP manual Help

Its Fan but I HAte Read booooooooks
You can search in google and find many pdf book about PHP programming
and many forum for Q&A and many Script WebSite For Samples

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