Best way to learn PHP. Opinions?

[Dogbert]

I'm in the process of getting back into PHP, it's been years but I still remember the basics pretty much after a little brushing up.. Just need to learn the more intermediate/advanced stuff.

My question, what is the best way to go about learning PHP? is it php.net? W3Schools? eBooks? Books? None of the above?

Please help me out here, I'm just trying to gather up some personal opinions and try to make a better judgement call on what I do next.. I'm leaning to just buying a book, and using php.net and W3Schools as references, or vice-versa.

Please and thank you for any help you can contribute. If you have any other tips, feel free to post them. I'd really appreciate any help offered.

[King]

Not sure if you're familiar or not, but there's a guy on YouTube called TheNewBoston. His channel is really excellent and his tutorials are very easy to understand. Have a look at his PHP tutorials, I'm sure you'll learn a fair bit.

[Techie.]

www.thenewboston.com

^ This will help you a lot.

[Peter L]

Techie, I was just about to link there:
http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=11

Great series.

[AlbinoShadow]

I will have to check out TheNewBoston. I have never learned a language from him but PHP will be my fifth language I have learned and I would like to know it for my forum.

[Peter L]

He dumbs it down in a way that even if you're new or a veteran it will be very easy to pickup. I personally like his style of teaching, he leaves the creativity up to you.

[TalishHF]

I learned a lot through watching youtube and writing the code out instead of copying and pasting.
A MAJOR TIP FOR LEARNING TO CODE! - Do not copy and paste, write the code out yourself and make sure you understand what it does.

[AceInfinity]

Read my thread here if you need conceptual advice about programming in general: http://www.supportforums.net/showthread.php?tid=24301

[Dogbert]

I learned a lot through watching youtube and writing the code out instead of copying and pasting.
A MAJOR TIP FOR LEARNING TO CODE! - Do not copy and paste, write the code out yourself and make sure you understand what it does.

Thanks for the reply, and yes. I never copy and paste. I learned that a long time ago.

Read my thread here if you need conceptual advice about programming in general: http://www.supportforums.net/showthread.php?tid=24301

Thanks for the link, some good advice in there.

And thanks to everyone else for the links, NewBoston is a good sounding site. I've seen it before, just never gave it much thought. I'll look into it.

[BreShiE]

Techie, I was just about to link there:
http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=11

Great series.

This is where I started learning from, but from the YouTube playlist rather than the site. TheNewBoston is a great coder, same as the guy who did the YouTube videos (can't remember his name)