Comments on: Best free PHP learning resources for beginners

By: Franklin Scharber

Franklin Scharber — Wed, 18 May 2011 11:36:47 +0000

Great info thanks! What language is close to php as far as functionality and ease of use?

By: Colin Boyd

Colin Boyd — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:24:03 +0000

The video tutorials on PHP where quite good, the downside was the screen size I found it very hard to focus on the topics being taught, shame, because the author was quite good. I’ve seem some tutorials on PHP / MySQL on the infiniteskills.com website, these also where excellent and the screen size was far larger. Maybe if you could expand the screen a little next time.

By: neha

neha — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:32:54 +0000

i need a book of php for learning and understanding

By: Vaclav Koyelka

Vaclav Koyelka — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:08:22 +0000

DooPHP is bad framework. Benchmark is good, but look into api. this framework only rewrite clean PHP to objects, e.g.:
PHP: strlen($string)
DooPHP: String::length($string)

and if you look into content of function length in String class you will see: return strlen($string);

if you recommend framework, so you MUST have experience with it

But for my recommend, using framework as beginner is bad practice, because he need to learn language not framework.

if you want to build a house, you must have experience with building :-)

By: ahmed

ahmed — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:16:42 +0000

thank you so much
it is so great

By: vickie

vickie — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:30:58 +0000

In my opinion, you can start learning PHP by selecting an appropriate framework to make you develop a site easily. I would recommend DooPHP because I saw their benchmark and demo, seems like the performance is much more faster than CakePHP, Yii and others. I think you can see the benchmark comparison at http://doophp.com/benchmark

By: Nokadota

Nokadota — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:56:30 +0000

I am working on enhancing my skillset so I can be more balanced as a designer/developer and I think this post has helped me immensely. CakePHP sounds like a nice framework as well, but being grounded in PHP first looks like the way to go.

Thanks a bunch for this post!