ive tried many sites like www.w3school.com. Ive tried some of the guides in the forums here. Ive triedwww.php.com. If u have any other sites please tell me and make it a site that is easy to learn php and to understand wat they are saying please. ANd maybe a site to learn mySQL but i am using w3school for mySQL

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Here's one: http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/read.php/22_0_0

It's called Practical PHP Programming. I have not read any of the chapters yet, but from what I see, it could be good. Check it out.

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Why don't you just stick with W3Schools? It's a very good site, or why not just google it...

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i do use w3schools but it gets confusing at some parts so i was wondering if there were any good sites (not sayibng its bad but i loose track of wat im doing sometimes)

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I'm not exactly an expert on PHP, but I know a thing or two. Although I have attempted to write at least one tutorial myself, that's not the way I learnt it. I learnt it by setting up PHP and Apache on a box and fiddling with it until I got it right, using the PHP manual for reference. Whether or not that slowed down the rate at which I picked the language up I don't know, but I'm pretty confident with it now.

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w3Schools is teh awfulness. I mean it. Personally, when i'm paying for dialup internet by the minute, i'd like what i'm pulling to be at least 30% actual content - but a typical w3schools page has about four times as much ads and table-layout markup than actual content. Blerch. Additionally, most of their stuff is out-of-date, and they should check their 'xhtml compliance since 1999' against a validator sometime.

Practical PHP Programming, hudzilla.org/phpbook, is teh bomb and you should read it from start to at least nine or ten chapters in (the database chapter is a compulsory read.) One text-ad per page glorifying the authors other work, but seeing as it's an entire book - free - i guess he can put a personal ad on if he wants to. If you know how, you can write a spot of PHP to take care of that kind of thing using my perennial favourite, preg_replace().

Ah, PCREs, how I love thee. (Yes, spectre, i DO have an obsession with regexps. You can use them to do everything - even slice bread! All you have to do is replace the atoms in the bread with nothingness at regular intervals.....)

For learning mySQL, the database chapter in Practical PHP covers that very well - Hudson even explains normalising tables, which is somewhat complicated sometimes - but apart from that, I also have a printout of chapter three of the mySQL documentation, which is a rather concise crash-course in SQL syntax 'n' all that other good stuff.

 

 

 

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OK, try P2L for some tutorials. Often you can pick up some useful code from looking at other peoples work, its a great way to learn.
If you are really interested in learning then I would suggest going out and buying a book, such as one of the For Dummies series. They're easy to understand and give lots of examples, and still explain everything you need to know. Sometimes you can also get a CD with loads of example scripts on it.

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Here's a few other sites that I have found useful for learning PHP.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/
http://www.free2code.net/
http://www.1phpstreet.com/

Good luck.

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Thanks for all the ideas ill try the book page then php21 site thing then those 3 sites thanks again

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I learned php from php.center.ee
but you have to learn estonian

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