How Can I Start Learning PHP

Andre Hoss

I want to learn PHP and MySql. How can I start and what is the good resource & tutorial?

Lost User

The internet is overflowing with learning tools, and they are not too difficult to find: PHP 5 Tutorial[^], mysql tutorials - Google Search[^]

User 13872609

1. Use integrated environment to install PHP environment, we must remember this point, do not separate to install, especially self taught friends. Otherwise, you will feel very complicated and will not be confident to learn. It is also important to note that any master is not achieved overnight. It is a step by step.
2. First understand some basic types of variables, grammar, functions, basic logic, and write simple code. To try and cultivate interest in the early stage. This period is a good time to lay a good foundation. This will affect the development after you, but it can also be perfected in the later stage.
3. At this time, you may think that PHP is just like this. It's not difficult, or some think it's too difficult. What's the use of this? At this time, we must stick to it. We can try to put it first, not too serious. Slowly bewildered you will be understood by you. At this point, it is recommended to learn html+css+js, relieve their pressure, this relatively simple resume confidence. In particular, JS has a similar idea and can be combined with each other.
4. These feel that 80% of the understanding can be released first, and now learning MySQL, is to understand the foundation. What is this? What can I do with it? Because of the previous integrated environment. Why do I feel messy? What I want to tell you is not to waste time and lose confidence when you are unable to solve problems. At this time, what we need to do is to learn to grow up and not lose heart. Two, I thought it was complete to understand all this. Our goal is to do all this well, which is a qualified PHP programmer.
5.If all goes well, you are basically not far from the preset goal, and have completed 70% of the whole study. The following is a sublimation on the basis of the previous basis. Combine HTML with CSS and JS, combine static files with PHP, and combine PHP with MySQL. This stage may be more and more problem-solving, we must learn to solve the problem. Many of the answers are on the Internet, and you have to learn to ask questions.
6.After that, you are almost at the end of your studies, but you still lack experience. At this point, you can see some online open source cms, such as weaving dreams, many domestic use, the more to solve the problem. Take a look at some videos (a lot of free online), fill in the gaps, and summarize and form your own knowledge system. It's time to be ready to celebrate your time without a waste of time (usually 2 to 3 months, see the time spent every day), and basically become a qualified PHP p

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There are many tutorials out there to learn PHP.

Rahul Khot

Its always important that you should have good knowledge of html and css also because when you gonna execute programs that time you will also work on html and css. All good php tutorials available on tutorialspoint. please check out

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Even if you never seen what PHP looks like, you still don't need to focus on reading books and lenthy know-hows. Once you get to grips with the fundamentals, you don't need board prep either.

At the same time, it would be headlong to dive into the coding process without any prior studying.
Yep, any coding language is better learnt in practice, yet it's essential to know the basics.

With that being said, start your reserch with the PHP official website. It provides a great and digestible overview which should be enough to grasp the language fundamentals, even if have no programming experience whatsoever.

Once you've hit the grindstone, you're good to head out into the PHP practice.

Now it’s time to write some PHP code.

Basically, you require only 2 things for this: a development environment to run your PHP scripts and a code editor to write the code.

Install a local development environment
First of all, you need an interpreter to make sense of your code and run it (since PHP is a scripting language).

Where do you write code? Development environment. A DE is usually a single program in which all development is done. It usually contains many functions for creating, modifying, compiling, deploying and debugging software. The purpose of the development environment is to abstract the configuration needed to combine the command line utilities into a single module, which will reduce the time to learn the language and increase developer productivity.

IDE
Try each development environment and see which platform you feel most comfortable with:

PHPStorm;
Netbeans;
Aptana Studio;
Eclipse.

Code editors for PHP projects
Sublime Text;
Visual Studio Code;
Atom;
Coda;
jEdit;
Programmer's Notepad;
Komodo Edit.

If you’re not sure which one to go with, try XAMP. It's an easy to install and easy to use Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP, and Perl.

Install a code editor
A code editor is aт editor for creating and editing program source code. It can be a standalone application or embedded in an integrated development environment (IDE).
Start coding
Run your IDE, open a browser and type localhost in the URL bar.

You will see the DE’s homepage.
Your PHP scripts must be inserted inside a directory aka webserver root.

Now open your code editor and paste the following PHP code:

Hello World!';

Save the file inside the htdocs directory as hello_world.php (you can use a