Learning PHP

[Peter L]

I'm going to be learning PHP. I'm gonna take it very serious and actually hope to start contributing some things in the future.

So, I'll be using websites, ebooks, etc but was wondering if any of you had some things to share? I'm gonna start by learning the potentials of PHP and it's general structure.

[mladen190]

hope this helps: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_array.asp

[Gaijin]

First bookmark http://php.net/docs.php, after I've learned the basics of PHP, that site was everything I needed.
I've written quite few tutorials here on SF, you can check them out.
http://www.supportforums.net/showthread.php?tid=1609 (start with this one)

If you have any question, you can always PM me...

[Cida]

Books

PHP
PHP: The Complete Reference (By: Steven Holzner)
PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice 3rd Edition (By: Matt Zandstra)
PHP in Action: Objects, Design, Agility: Modern Software Practices for PHP (By: Dagfinn Reiersol, et al)
Essential PHP Security (By: C Shiflett)
Programming PHP (By: Kevin Tatroe, et al)

SQL
The Art of SQL (By: Stéphane Faroult, Peter Robson)
SQL Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) (By: Anthony Molinaro)
The Practical SQL Handbook: Using SQL Variants (By: Judith S. Bowman, et al)

Javascript
DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model (By: Jeremy Keith)
Object-Oriented Javascript (By: Stoyan Stefanov)
JavaScript: The Good Parts (By: D Crockford)
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (By: David Flanagan)

CSS
CSS: The Definitive Guide (By: E Meyer)
Pro CSS & HTML Design Patterns (By: Michael Bowers)
The ZEN of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (By: Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag)
Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics (By: Jennifer Robbins, Niederst)

Other
HTTP Pocket Reference: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) (By: Clinton Wong, Linda Mui)
Mastering Regular Expressions (By: JEF Friedl)

Online tutorials, guides, and documentations

PHP
W3Schools - PHP [Tutorial]
Tizag - PHP [Tutorial]
DevelopPHP - PHP [Tutorial]
Free Web Master Help - PHP [Tutorial]
Home & Learn - PHP [Tutorial]
Tutorialized - PHP[Tutorial(s)]
Practical PHP[Guide]
DevArticles - PHP [Guide]
Writting secure PHP [Guide]
PHP.net [Documentation] (Official)
PHP Builder [Documentation]

SQL
W3Schools - SQL [Tutorial]
Tizag - SQL [Tutorial]
SQLzoo [Tutorial]
Learn SQL [Tutorial]
SQL as understood by SQLite [Documentation]
MySQL [Documentation] (Official)

Javascript
W3Schools - Javascript [Tutorial]
W3Schools - HTML DOM [Tutorial]
W3Schools - Ajax [Tutorial]
W3Schools - jQuery [Tutorial]
Javascript Kit [Tutorial(s)]
Javascript [Documentation] (Official)

CSS
W3Schools - CSS [Tutorial]
Tizag - CSS [Tutorial]

Ebooks

Link 1

• PHP, a beginers guide [PDF]
  
• PHP/MySQL programming for the absolute beginner [PDF]
  
• PHP, the good parts [PDF]
  
• PHP OOP Introduction [PDF]
  
• PHP OOP tutorial (from killerphp.com) [PDF]
  
• PHP Object orientated solutions [PDF]
  
• PHP cheat sheet (V2) [PDF]
  
• SQL server cheat sheet [PDF]
  
• Underground PHP Oracle manual [PDF]
  
• Regular Expressions cheat sheet [PDF]
  

[mashemaru]

tnx for the huge list cida i need it to improve my skills in web dev.

[Splodge0007]

I think that Cida nailed it perfectly. I wish you luck in your learnings.

[Cyber geeK]

Thanks for that list bro.
And good luck with PHP.

-cgeek

[begginer]

Hey buddy thanks for the free ebooks! I'm trying to make a game with php