Is it possible to learn PHP online?

MasterA said:
I am interested in learning PHP. Is it possible/easy to learn PHP online? How much learning will it take to be able to create a basic website or CMS using PHP?
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I am a self-taught PHP developer here. I started learning PHP at w3schools back in late 2012 or early 2013. I consider myself beginner PHP developer and so far I've created a few web application. Ranging from simple website to weather forecast (using APIs) to MyBB plugins. My latest new skills in the field of PHP is OOP - still learning much of it.

How long would it take to create a basic website or CMS using PHP? Well, for basic website, it would takes a few days. As for CMS, no PHP knowledge is needed. Just a few clicks here and there .. you're done. I highly suggest you to learn PHP if you haven't yet. So you can create custom made application in the future.
 
Hugop said:
Are you kidding or do you really mean the topic name? Please tell me that you are kidding and that this topic is just for SEO D:



Q: How much learning will it take to be able to create a basic website or CMS using PHP?
A: 3-10minutes of learning, 30min-1h to create a complete forum (without security, pretty basic with usergroups, edit, posts, plug-ins, usercp, admincp, etc).

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That's actually a really silly reply. Any fool can set up a forum without knowing PHP. You can run it too on very basic knowledge. However, if something goes wrong and you don't have a tech admin, you're in for a whole world of hurt. I am guessing that he wants to learn in order to create custom code. It takes a lot longer than 10 minutes to learn an entire language... Unless you're some genius. 😛 :lol:
 
yeah! it's possible, well many of us have learned PHP online without taking any additional class. It's a very easy language if you know the concept of C and C++, having C like index with the benefit of some java function like exception handling. I mean to say if you know both structured and object oriented syntax of programming PHP is damn easy thing.
 
Hello,

PHP learning many Platform available in web:

- W3schools is best PHP Learning Platform.

Thanks.
 
I'm really not sure why everyone points to W3 schools. I hate it. It's like the absolute bane of my existence. hahaha. I say that because my professor loves it and it really doesn't help me. I learn visually. When I see how something works and why, I can then make it happen more easily. Code Academy is a lot better than W3 in my opinion. Actually, I find it easier to learn if you follow video tutorials. If you can find some good ones that explain everything they do as they do it and not just telling you to go copy/pasting code.

I've been forced to learn PHP in the last couple of months and it's actually not too bad. I had to create a CRUD app with AJAX. There are lots of tutorials online. Most of my learning, eventhough I am in uni for this stuff is done online. The only language that is taught on a thorough scale is Java. They teach Java and expect us to use the fundamentals to learn other languages. ^^
 
Like any programming language, it is very much possible to pickup and learn the language, taking only the commitment of the person themselves.
 
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