Where did you learn PHP?

[benreich]

Hi,

I am wondering where did the vBulletin creators learn PHP? I was looking through the vBulletin code and thought, "damn, this is the coolest and neatest coding I have ever seen in my whole life". How do you do it? And where did you learn?

[roosevelt]

Lol.. I really like the comment you made about the neatest and coolest coding part. I don't know from where/how vbulletin learned PHP coding. But I learned PHP & MySQL from quite a few sources.

Books

PHP & MySQL Visual QuickPro Guide by larry ullman
PHP & MySQL for dummies (good reference, not good learning book) Video CDS

VTC - PHP & MySQL Training by Joshua Mustofa I do have some other small books like PHP Pocket reference but they aren't really worth listing them. And when you develop a script use Zend Studio Client, no notepad and even Dreamweaver. Zend Studio Client is extremely good and will help you to make neat codes. I still see many people starting php tags with <?, instead of standard <?php tag. And then include file.php;, instead of standard include("file.php");. The magic of neat coding is write codes that are standard :). And don't just write your whole code in single line, branch them nicely, use comments and spaces effectively and so on.

[Razasharp]

You might wanna see this thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=149734

Got half the vB team to post in it ;)

[rdsx]

I learned from a book.

[weitalia]

php.net :)

[PN12]

The PHP (http://www.php.net/docs.php) and mySQL (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/) documentation helped a lot :)

[deatheyes]

some tutorials at www.spoono.com & php manual (php.net)