I learnt to code PHP many moons ago, most of which came from messing around with the code and reading a few tutorials. Looking at other people's code helps too, but it's important not to get too hung up on conforming to someone else's style.
The biggest boost to learning the language was installing an Apache server with PHP and MySQL on my own machine. This saved me having to upload files to see them working, helped me understand some of the deeper workings.
Nowadays I find myself using PHP for all kinds of things, from websites to running development tasks from the command line. It's a very nice language once you get the hang of it, and definitely the most useful one I've learnt. |