Link me

[mendhak]

... to an easy PHP beginners tutorial.

Thanks.

[mendhak]

It's not a trick question.

[Gimlin]

I learned by going to 4 sites.

1. Vbforums / PHP section
2. Sitepoint.com / PHP section

1,2 just read read and read. Read other peoples questions and answers, try to help others, and post your own questions. Everytime you read and there is a function or something that you dont understand go to site 3.

3. PHP.net duh

4. Web monkeyhttp://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/...php/index.html has some great tutorials to get you started, it has some really important tutorials for PHP such as form handling and db handling as well as the basic functions. After awhile this will become rather useless as your skills increase, just do steps 1,2,3.

Good Luck

[mendhak]

[phpman]

php tutorials

[visualAd]

Ok - If you know one programming language then learning another is easy.

I found this book very useful. Especially as I already knew VB it takes you through the language constructs quickly and simply and then gets into the real purpose of PHP.

I also find it useful having a apache server and php on my computer. As web hosts don't take kindly to CGI scripts stuck in infinite loops taking their processor time.

Apache is an open source web server a damn site more reliable than IIS and can be downloaded from www.apache.org

PHP is also open source and can be downloaded from www.php.net.