Hey. I'm new =]

Anyhoo, I've been trying to get my head around Php and all that, my site is currently in html but I'd love to use php instead. I wouldn't call myself stupid, but I'm just not getting it. Could someone (with the time and patience) help explain the basics please.

If not, is there a good link. Preferably php for dummies, all the long words confuse me
Thanks a bunch

This forum is not for teaching the basics of a programming language, you can learn by reading tutorials online, or by buying a book.
However if you learn some code and want help fixing it or getting to grips with it, you can post a topic and I'm sure someone will help!

Use Google if you don't want to buy a book, just search what you want to know...

Oh and I moved this for you, since you posted it in the total wrong place.

Thanks. Although I wasn't asking for someone to teach me, perhaps explain a little. And I did add, "If not, is there a good link".
Well I wasn't to know it was in the wrong place but thank you for moving it.

http://youngcoders.com - ask there

also I learned PHP by example, which means I looked at PHP, tried bits of it myself and before I knew it vuola I was coding in PHP

To be a decent php programmer you really need to learn the long words, the community is more than happy to help you out if you don't know what something means, everyone has to start.

I personally think there's no better resource than the php manual, it really is the most concise resources out there for learning php. So many 3rd party sites teach bad practices. My suggestion would be only to use php.net for learning from (oh and Zymic.com's official tutorials on front page ), you can use other sites to help you get your foot on the rung, but never monkey their code as a large majority of it is poorly written (correct that, never monkey code fullstop ).

Decent resources:
Google books have a lot of previews of books, find one you like and you could go from there:
http://books.google.com/books?id=r0RzbTtX1...HeDPkWdn1Lh3ovA

php manual:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.php

Don't forgot the IRC channel on Zymic too!

did you try w3schools.com? i learned html, css, and php from there.

I really suggest buying the book "PHP and MySQL in easy steps"

It's like 10 bucks from barnes and noble.com and it's how I learned everything I know about php and mysql. A very good buy.

I definitely agree,

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

this is a great source as well.

You can try these set of tutorials I wrote on ozzu.com

hi

You can refer www.Tizag.com for learning the basics of PHP.

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