PHP Tutorials

[neonerd]

Hi all.

Does anyone know of a good PHP Tutorial website? I've tried to read the documentation on www.php.net, but it is long and confusing. I have a strong grasp of JavaScript and HTML, if that's any help, but my goal with PHP is to integrate it with an Access DBase (using ODBC). Any references are greatly appreciated.

 

[AdamSnow]

I'm looking as well...

Free bump!

 

[Incitatus]

The official PHP documentation. Start from the top. PHP has one of the best manuals/documents that I have ever seen. (povray being the other) Start from the top and you'll learn what you need to know to get going; from there, just search for what you want to do and it will tell you everything you need. It is even annotated with user comments so they provide a lot of insight on how to do things "real world."

I'd recommend downloading the .chm version (Windows Help format) because it is very clean and searchable (assuming you're on windows.)

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: Incitatus
The official PHP documentation. Start from the top. PHP has one of the best manuals/documents that I have ever seen. (povray being the other) Start from the top and you'll learn what you need to know to get going; from there, just search for what you want to do and it will tell you everything you need. It is even annotated with user comments so they provide a lot of insight on how to do things "real world."

I'd recommend downloading the .chm version (Windows Help format) because it is very clean and searchable (assuming you're on windows.)

I assume this is what he's talking about: Link

I guess I'll download it to, and give it a whirl.



KeyserSoze

 

[Incitatus]

Yep thats it. The extended .chm has all the user comments in it (which are pretty helpful when the actual documentation gets a bit fuzzy.)

I wish I never wasted my time on "tutorials" and reading books.. if only I had RTFM from the start..

 

[RossMAN]

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