Ed or Wluke

[Snoop Dogg]

How did you guys learn PHP?

[Mike Sullivan]

Through Perl.

(No, seriously. :))

[Freddie Bingham]

Through C++.

[Martin]

I'm learning it by picking apart this script. I have a LONG way to go :)

[Menno]

by getting fed up with a newsmanager, looking at some scripts, then coding my own.

[Mas*Mind]

through lots of languages...java, c++, perl...

but mostly by just trying out and looking at other scripts...and reading the manual (http://www.php.net/manual) alot

[pedro_gb]

Only Ed or wlule are supposed to reply to this thread! Why don't you people listen? :) j/k

I learned it though kevin yank's tutorial (in webmasterbase.com somewhere).

[JimF]

I learned it in much the same way as it was created to begin with: trying to find easier ways of doing things on my site.

During the season it's updated daily, uploading 25 - 30 images per game, creating new pages for new game reports and news articles, as well as modifying the main page to reflect the latest score was *very* time consuming. It would take me an hour or more everyday to keep the site up to date.

Now, by using PHP &mysql, I enter the info into a form, click submit, and badda-bing, the site is updated. I identified problems, and learned basically by trial and error to get things to work.

It also helps having a job where they pay you to design sites - I've done most of my reading and learning at work, where I could concentrate on it for extended periods of time, and I could tell them I was learning it for work - which I was - but I always created something for a work page that I needed for my site. Funny how that works, isn't it? ;)

Okay, I'm rambling. It's time for bed...

-jim

[Mark Hensler]

-http://php.net
-hacking scripts from http://hotscripts.com and http://resourceindex.com
-book
-time...

After your first few languages, its much easier to learn a new one.... just syntax and keywords. You should already have basic programming concepts and troubleshooting skills pinned down.