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[HosterSlice]

The best place for help would be http://w3schools.com/

[Host-Shield]

Very nice tutorial, I'm wanting I start coding PHP this is a great help thank you

[HobsonsChoice]

Hi,

Thank for such a awesome short tutorial,I am seriously going to learn php at last.Do you recommend me any website or ebook for Advanced learning, Video tutorial will be best for me.

Thank you

[jenok]

Originally Posted by HobsonsChoice

Hi,

Thank for such a awesome short tutorial,I am seriously going to learn php at last.Do you recommend me any website or ebook for Advanced learning, Video tutorial will be best for me.

Thank you

http://www.php.net/download-docs.php

[ServSlots]

I have been learning php for sometime now and this tutorial is so good for starters

[SwiftVM]

Thanks for this small guide, it's helped me further understand some aspects of PHP, I'm still a newbie at this, and I'm hoping to develop using simplistic guides & the use of the php.net manual -- That's great.

Thanks,
Chris.

[Elev8]

Comma concatenation is often overlooked, in my opinion.
If working with large blocks of text it can reduce the load somewhat.

Example:

PHP Code:

<?php
echo $var1 . $var2 . $var3;
?>

Is a lot slower than:

PHP Code:

<?php
echo $var1 , $var2 , $var3;
?>

[_GMF_]

Originally Posted by Elev8

Comma concatenation is often overlooked, in my opinion.
If working with large blocks of text it can reduce the load somewhat.

NOTE: Comma concatenation only works with echo
if you use print you will get a syntax error message

[Elev8]

Originally Posted by _GMF_

NOTE: Comma concatenation only works with echo
if you use print you will get a syntax error message

^Very good point which I completely forgot about!

It also really only effects variables containing large amounts of text, HTML, or something similar.

[LeoTheFox]

Websites I tend to use for learning code, not just php are:

w3schools.com
codeacademy.com
http://code.google.com/edu/languages...ics/index.html

If I think of anymore I'll post them up

[killerlipz]

Thanks for reminding me php.. I an so focus with networking.. I think i need to read back and experiment again with php .. Thanks!

[Grumps]

Originally Posted by Elev8

Comma concatenation is often overlooked, in my opinion.
If working with large blocks of text it can reduce the load somewhat.

Technically, that's b/c it's not a concatenation. Just echoing one after the other.

It would have the same performance as
echo var1;
echo var2;
echo var3;

[tajonny07]

PHP stood for "Personal Home Page" until the end of PHP version 3 or so, when Zend took over the majority of it's development. Presently it's the recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", or something like that.

As far as learning PHP, once I had the basics of the language down I started looking at some commonly used open source projects such as PhpMyAdmin, PhpSysInfo, and Wordpress. I tried to think of a very simple fix/refactor/new feature and I spent a weekend trying to implement it.

[Phil @ NodeDeploy]

Fantastic tutorial! Took me a while to read but it was well worth it.

Thank you very much,
Phil

[venkateshbandaru01]

Major thanks for the article. Will read on...