Best Book\Resource to learn PHP from?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Look like most of the people writing hacks learned in the same way.

And i think that is the best way to learn it also.

[Guy G]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Look like most of the people writing hacks learned in the same way.

And i think that is the best way to learn it also.

But there are more to php than writing hacks.
Its a good way to start of course.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Look like most of the people writing hacks learned in the same way.

And i think that is the best way to learn it also.

Its a good way to learn php code but the vBulletin source is a far cry from showing you everything that can be done with php. I started that way to tho, and had done my fair share of lurking php.net .

If your are going to learn via code written by others don't limit yourself to one source. Anytime I see a script coded in php for download I grab it and fire up good old editplus (which most of the time is running in the taskbar anyway ). The only problem with learning this way is you can pick up some 'bad coding habbits' depending on the source you learn from.

O yea word of advice to people who might be intrested in learning php. I have never seen an online tutorial come close to covering php as well as books have. I always recomend getting a good book over reading a tutorial via the internet for the newbie. Online tutorials still have their place tho, they come in handy after you have a basic grasp on php. And unlike a book they can be online at the authors whim, where the book takes awhile to print and publish.