starting point php programming..

jaredb

too much time has passed without me being better in php... so here is my question... where is a good place to start? i have picked up a few books in the past to no avail. also what were some of your first real php projects?

Bergamot

What kind of non-php programming experience do you have?

jaredb

unfortunatly, i dont have much other than html. i did take a few classes in vb a while back tho.

3stripe

I can give you a designer's perspective on programming php as it something I'm forced to do from time to time How I started - sending an email from a contact form - managed this by using google to find tutorials with working code that you can hack up. After that... hmmm... I don't know... still stuck at this point! Although I have done some stuff with php in Wordpress....

jaredb

yah i have done a lot of tinkering w/ existing code and have a basic grasp on it. I can understand what a lot of does, sort of. As for starting from scratch... thats another story.

ADM

Try grabbing functions from existing php apps and creating a new script yourself and then just add little features.

I did something similar when I created a shoutbox. I used a tutorial for the shoutbox but then added a member system from another script and then I added things like bbcode, quotes, profiles etc etc on my own.

The best site I found while work was definitely php.net -- the manual there is god.

3stripe

Hmmm, speaking of which, I'm stuck again on some code... Shameless cross-thread link coming up cos I need to fix it in the next hour.... http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/2192/sending-html-email-using-php-header-problems/#Comment_27446