Best Way To Start Learning...?
Alright, I need to learn PHP, but honestly I'm having trouble with some
of the online tutorials for two reasons:
1. They're incredibly dry and tend to just say what things do instead
of going in-depth into examples.
2. They don't provide me with excercises and projects in which to test
out what I've learned. The best books I've ever read on any form of
scripting, coding, programming, etc. give me tasks in which to use what
I've been taught. I only learn well by doing, not simply by being
presented with facts.
So... is there a site and/or a book (I'm willing to buy one if
necessary) that you would recommend for someone like me?
As a side note, a lot of them seem to put a lot of time and effort into
instructions on setting up PHP, Apache, and MySQL. I have a web host
that's already fully configured (and runs PHP as CGI, although Apache
is an available method that goes against their recommendation)
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