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1. List of books stackoverflow.com/questions/90924/what-is-the-best-php-programming-book
2. Book tuxradar.com/practicalphp
3. Community and much more phpkode.com
That's not to say it's good or talented knowledge, but it's basic knowledge. (People don't like that Wordpress mixes templating with code. It's unelegant and sorta gross.)
The way I became a journeyman PHP-er was to mess around with Wordpress. There are enough resources out there that Wordpress will give you the basic knowledge. That's not to say it's good or talented knowledge, but it's basic knowledge. (People don't like that Wordpress mixes templating with code. It's unelegant and sorta gross.)
A much better approach would be to start a simple html/css based website and start abstracting out common elements, building a templating system, get content from a database, dispatch http requests with a front controller until you've got something that looks like an MVC based system.
Then you start from scratch and do it again, learning from the horrible code you wrote the first time.
Eventually you realize that a framework does it better than you and learn to use rails, zend etc.
Next step is to build your project and google your way through it. With your guideline that you wrote it will help you look up things and once you see the code matched with what you wrote things will click more. Don't just copy and paste what you see but learn what the code is doing and if need be look up things you do not get like "die" or why echo instead of print.
Lastly read up on security since what ever you build will probably not be able to go live. Read why that is and how to fix it.
http://www.amazon.com/Build-Database-Driven-Using-MySQL/dp/0...
It assumes you are comfortable with basic HTML and text editing, and nothing more. In the process of building a basic CMS, you cover pretty much everything you need to know to build whatever you really want to build, as far as the language goes.
Going off the suggestions there, I decided to use the ZEND framework and I've been using the following book: http://amzn.com/1430218797
If you want to build a CMS project, I would highly recommend this book. The examples and code are really easy to follow. Good luck and feel free to email me if you have any questions!
(Note: I did have some RoR experience, but I was completely new to PHP)
EDIT: Curious to know - how does HN feel about starting with the ZEND framework?
http://www.amazon.com/Learning-MySQL-JavaScript-Step-Step/dp...
It goes through a good amount of material while still being a beginner's book, assuming only that you know a little html. It's very thorough in what it does cover, and should give you enough confidence to decide what you want to learn next, ie, more in-depth PHP, another language, etc.
The way I became a journeyman PHP-er was to mess around with Wordpress. There are enough resources out there that Wordpress will give you the basic knowledge. That's not to say it's good or talented knowledge, but it's basic knowledge. (People don't like that Wordpress mixes templating with code. It's unelegant and sorta gross.)
This is not an attack on you personally but I absolutely abhor the inner workings of wordpress and would thoroughly recommend against it for a beginning developer. A much better approach would be to start a simple html/css based website and start abstracting out common elements, building a templating system, get content from a database, dispatch http requests with a front controller until you've got something that lo…
Today, I actually hate Wordpress as much as you do. I now use Crowd Fusion whenever possible, but Wordpress's introduction to PHP helped a lot.