5 Places to properly learn PHP
January 16th
Daniel Pataki
Web Development
coding, php, tutorials
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If you want to do some coding on your website, modify your Wordpress template, etc., chances are that you’ll need to use PHP to do it. There are a lot of places offering snippets of code, but if you want some more complete sites about PHP, take a look at this list, and you’ll be a PHP whizz in no time.
W3Schools
A pretty obvious one, but useful nevertheless. The W3C is responsible for a lot of web standards, and their site, W3Schools is an encyclopedia of coding knowledge, written in an easily understandable, tutorial format. This is a great place to start because the order of the “lessons” is easy to follow, you’ll learn something new in each one, but hopefully won’t get overwhelmed.
The 15 basic lessons cover almost every major aspect of PHP, apart from the newer object oriented stuff, if you can learn to comfortably use what’s in these tutorials, you should be well on your way to becoming a proficient programmer.
Tizag
Tizag is similar to W3Schools in that it has a lot of different language tutorials. I used to visit this site quote often because in some cases it has better tutorials than W3Schools. The basic section covers much the same topics, albeit in twenty-something lessons. The most helpful part however, is the tutorial on handling files, strings, and an introduction to cookies.
There is a whole 10-parter on file handling, opening them, reading data, modifying data, etc, which could well come in handy at some point. There is also a 6 part series on string functions, although I would have included the function substr() myself, which can shorten a string easily. If you’re taking a look, be sure to look into the functions implode() and explode() because they sound cool, and are also pretty useful.