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Originally Posted by trekr5  Hello
I'm teaching myself PhP/mySQl. How long would it take to become really good at it?
Also do you know of good online resources that I can use? Is the most intuitive way to learn to think up projects (do some free work for yourself and other people) and practice new skills that way? I've found just reading the book(by rote) and then practicing the commands is pretty boring and doesn't interest me.
What do you think?  |
I have a lot of programming experience, but a new project required PHP, so I started working with PHP. It took me about 2 months to get the syntax down. One of the hardest things is to learn complex queries for the Database backend. (I already knew this.)
If you don’t have any programming experience, it may take awhile to learn the more difficult functions and how they apply.
I would suggest that you create a project or help someone out, because it forces you to solve issues that you would not have thought up yourself.
I use
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (the link is php.net )especially the functions areas. At the bottom other users have put their code and other issues they have solved.