Tips for learning PHP

[Arya Raiin]

Okay, I've been poking around with a little PHP. Never got serious with it. Beginning to need it, so I need some tips on learning it. Any suggestions on books and such? The non-extreme headache version would be nice. XD That is the definition of how I learned CSS. I'd like to not reenact that.

[Midori]

In my totally biased opinion, you should use Perl and not PHP.

As for your actual question, I'm afraid I can't give much advice on PHP myself. If you're looking to spend a little money, I know that O'Reilly books are usually of good quality. For free resources, Wikibooks seems to have a pretty complete about it.

[Mithrandir]

If you know any coding theory, the best places to fill in your gaps regarding the language directly are:

http://www.php.net/
and
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_intro.asp

If you are not really into coding, you might find Zend's tutorials easier to follow...

http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/625

Feel free to post questions here, if you want. I've done a fair bit of PHP in my life.

[shooraijin]

In my totally biased opinion, you should use Perl and not PHP.

My best advice to learning PHP, in a likeminded vein, is not to learn PHP.

Something like Ruby on Rails would probably be more useful to you in the long run. But I agree with QF, learn Perl