PHP Tutorials

[puppies]

Does anyone know of a good free PHP tutorial. I want to learn PHP but my college doesn't offer a course on it. I know html, actionscript, and very basic java so I do have some programming experience and it doesn't have to be very beginning coding tutorials. I would just really like to learn the correct way of coding with PHP.

Thanks for any help

[thetestingsite]

http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/
http://www.php.net/tut.php

You could also use Google to search for PHP tutorials.

Hope this helps.

[Jas]

When I get started with a new language, I like to start with video tutorials and then read up on it. So, I used www.phpvideotutorials.com and www.sampsonresume.com www.killerphp.com has a few as well. It's no replacement for reading, but it gets you started fast.

[Twey]

I have trouble understanding why anyone would want a video tutorial of code being typed out. It seems nonsensical to me.

[alexjewell]

Haha, I've got a few I downloaded from YouTube (with the VideoDownloader plugin for FireFox), and they're kind of fun...but I really haven't learned much from them.

[Jas]

I know this post is a bit late, but:

Video Tutorials are only good if the person making the vid explains everything well (Not just typing code; in my opinion SampsonResume.com does a great job with that). There are obviously some bad coding vids out there, but if you find some good ones, I think they help a lot.

[Twey]

But isn't it just a high-bandwidth version of code with comments?

[Jas]

Not at all! Check out www.sampsonresume.com and see for yourself. It's nice to have an "instructor" every now and again to get you started. It's definitly not a replacement for text, but it helps a lot. I got started on PHP with them (John Sampson talking me through everything), and when I finished those-- as well as www.phpvideotutorials.com (Which is great for basic syntax) and some www.killerphp.com (I think that's the URL; there's not a whole lot there, just some alternate syntax like print instead of echo)-- I read up on the stuff I saw. From there it was all a breeze. I suppose we might just have to agree to disagree on this one? lol.

[Twey]

Check out www.sampsonresume.com

The videos appear to be broken somehow -- none of my players can play them.

as well as www.phpvideotutorials.com

This is a domain placeholder page.

and some www.killerphp.com

The videos here are all in Flash.

I read up on the stuff I saw. From there it was all a breeze.

But surely watching someone type echo 'blah'; and say "and here we're outputting 'blah' to the browser" is exactly the same as reading

// And here we're outputting 'blah' to the browser.
echo 'blah';

... just several million times the bandwidth?

[Jas]

lol. The vids/sites are working fine. (sampsonresume need windows media player.) And disagree about it being the same-- it's faster, though it has less info then reading. I will give you the fact that reading is more effective.

What's really funny is this thread has long since died, and we keep posting on it. lol.