Where can I learn?

[allboeing]

Hey everyone I want ot learn php so I can learn how to make mybb and my own forum platform.
I know it might take months but I just want to know where I can learn all that so I can learn it when I am ready.
Thanks,
Allboeing.

 

[eagle12]

It wasn't spam! I was trying to tell you that you are setting your expectations too high, tell you the concepts you will need to learn and that it will take more than a few months. It is insulting for you to think that you are going to learn PHP in a few months for people who are in the business. What you will be able to learn in that time is a fraction of what you will need to know to build a proper forum. I was attempting to tell you that nicely, but since you can't seem to drop it...

It is an insult to people like me, who are trained / experienced with multiple years (10+) experience under their belt to have someone like you say they are going to learn to program in a "few months".

 

[allboeing]

It wasn't spam! I was trying to tell you that you are setting your expectations too high, tell you the concepts you will need to learn and that it will take more than a few months. It is insulting for you to think that you are going to learn PHP in a few months for people who are in the business. What you will be able to learn in that time is a fraction of what you will need to know to build a proper forum. I was attempting to tell you that nicely, but since you can't seem to drop it...

It is an insult to people like me, who are trained / experienced with multiple years (10+) experience under their belt to have someone like you say they are going to learn to program in a "few months".

I never siad a few months I said months as in 18,32,god knows how many months I figured it would be a number of months that is over a year but doesn't fall on bang on when I started kinda like the 18-24 months baby clothes but longer know do you see what I am saying

 

[labrocca]

I find the ebooks at Sitepoint to be reasonably priced and very well written. In conjuction with php.net and w3c you should get a good grasp of things. PHP.net isn't really written for beginners with questions.

 

[allboeing]

I find the ebooks at Sitepoint to be reasonably priced and very well written. In conjuction with php.net and w3c you should get a good grasp of things. PHP.net isn't really written for beginners with questions.

Thanks Labrocca

 

[MeanerDomainer]

Another vote for w3schools.

And more "spam": If you happen to have a currently unexploited niche in mind for a forum, planning to learn php in order to design and program your own forum platform is a very bad idea. By the time anyone who today is at that stage has a WORKABLE forum platform built, someone else's forum will have long owned that once promising niche.
Desining your own forum platform is a bad idea in almost all cases(Iunless done for academic reasons or personal gratification) because a sloppy and unstable platform that lacks functionality, loses threads or user data and has security lapses is a great way to kill a forum.
If you plan to start a forum, do so on a proven platform and program your own platform concurrently on the side. When you feel that your offering is equal (or just more suitable for your specific project), switch carefully.

 

[allboeing]

Another vote for w3schools.

And more "spam": If you happen to have a currently unexploited niche in mind for a forum, planning to learn php in order to design and program your own forum platform is a very bad idea. By the time anyone who today is at that stage has a WORKABLE forum platform built, someone else's forum will have long owned that once promising niche.
Desining your own forum platform is a bad idea in almost all cases(Iunless done for academic reasons or personal gratification) because a sloppy and unstable platform that lacks functionality, loses threads or user data and has security lapses is a great way to kill a forum.
If you plan to start a forum, do so on a proven platform and program your own platform concurrently on the side. When you feel that your offering is equal (or just more suitable for your specific project), switch carefully.

w3schools really are popular wonder if there was a poll on this how much votes they'd get house majority in democratic terms? probaly.

 

[seoexon]

tizag.com is one more, personally i havnt gone thru this website, but i heard that they have nice tutorials for HTML and PHP.

 

[iammarkwood]

Re:

HI dear! What you will wanna to learn. I think a lot of courses available on the online resources.

For PHP you can learn with php.net . Just search on google on yours desired course.

 

[allboeing]

HI dear! What you will wanna to learn. I think a lot of courses available on the online resources.

For PHP you can learn with php.net . Just search on google on yours desired course.

See guys even someone on their first post can give a valid reply.Thank you iammarkwood.

 

[richrf]

The best way to learn is by being tutored by someone. Programming is more than just learning the language. It entails:

1) Setting up a development environment
2) Learning about security, performance, testing, good programming techniques, designing for usability, designing for maintainability.
3) Learning how to integrate the program with backend file or database systems (e.g. MySQL)
4) Learning about all of the tools, scripts and programming modules that are already available that you can leverage.

This is a lot of work!!!

If you try to learn this all on your own it would be like trying to learn how to build a skyscraper all by yourself. So you have to understand your limitations and the limitations of your environment.

If you can learn some php and design small, simple scripts, it would be a great start. If you are trying to build a forum with all of the necessary aspects that I discussed yourself, you might want to step back and try to understand better what you are attempting to undertake. Learn slowly and surely.

Right now, I have investigated many simple scripts which are so poorly designed and fundamentally flawed that they are unusable - and developers don't even realize this or understand where they went wrong. They simply don't know any better because of their incomplete training. My recommendation would be to build something small or better yet work on some projects with other developers and learn your trade step-by-step.

I'm in need of a simple PHP RSS Reader similar to this:

http://www.phprssreader.com/

This is an example of a nice simple project to start off with. The developer used SimplePie.

 

[xp.net.sa]

Hey

If you are intersting to learn php you have to study the basic.
How can you change color on Html and size and make it bold.

Belive me If you like it and intersting one day you will be a coder.

Good Luck !

 

[allboeing]

I can do colour in html with css :L

 

[seoexon]

Hey

If you are intersting to learn php you have to study the basic.
How can you change color on Html and size and make it bold.

Belive me If you like it and intersting one day you will be a coder.

Good Luck !

He might want to know when will that one day come

 

[allboeing]

colour you use hexcodes,bold tag is <b> </b> I already know everything in html and css need to learn php keep on topic or I will be reporting you.

 

[.ninja]

This is the best video tutorial for advanced php coders.:bingo:
www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=653

 

[furniturebuyer]

You can even learn from Google.

 

[Brentt_Morris]

You may want to try wmtips.com and Lynda.com They have plenty of training materials that you can use to start with your forum site.

 

[allboeing]

anyone now where I can download a single file that can be burnt to dvd and playable in a dvd player.

 

[GoQuickly]

PHP.net and W3Schools.com would be great resources for starting to learn to code, but you are going to have to also research MySQL in general on how to create the functions.

Best of luck!

 

[slim182]

If you don't want to spend money then just google for php tutorials.

But I would recommend getting a good php book, I'm sure there are many many out there, if you go through a full book, you will know enough to do a lot, and when you are working on your project you will go learning on the fly, depending on what you need to do.

You will also need to learn about databases if you don't know about that yet, mySql for example or any other db platform.