Excellent Article!

Takes you from the beginner stages, right to the advanced PHP frameworks.

Have a great christmas all!

symfony is seriously the best framework by far! its slightly bloating but then its the balance you need, worth exploring once you have the basics of php

great article, as always!

Great list..thnx for the post.

You made a typo.

>> Another framework based on MVC, Akelos claims to be a simple ans easy to us PHP framework.

“ans”.

This is an good article for the first steps into PHP development.

Awesome collection of VERY useful information.

Not to be mean but, GD isn’t an “advanced oop technique”, it isn’t even oop and the oop presented in the other tutorials is outdated, you should point people to the (relatively) new (better) way of doing oop (php5’s been around for a while now, you know).

Oh, sorry. I read the header wrong. Please ignore my comment on gd (the oop ones still stand ‘tho).

@Bogdan- I didnt say it was an OOP technique, if you read the header for step 3, it is supposed to read “Advanced and OOP techniques” emphasis on the “and”. Maybe I should have written “Advanced techniques and OOP techniques”?

As for the tutorials, I liked them and have used them before while learning. By all means if you have some to share with us please dont leave us hanging

Drew

@Bogdan-
No worries, I probably should have worded that differently. Its meant to read as “Advanced techniques and OOP techniques”.

Regarding the tuts, sorry you didn’t find them useful, but I actually used these when first starting out which is why I went back to them. I would love to see the ones you enjoy though, please do share them

-Drew

So is this starting the Learn PHP From Scratch series over again or is this just a refesher? I have been hoping the series would pick up again….

Nice list Douglass, Useful for every PHP developer in general.

Thanks for sharing.

@Mike-I’m not sure, I’ll have to see what the boss man says.

@DKumar-Thanks very much, I appreciate it. Also, Douglass sounds totally cool when you say it like that

Also forgot to say Happy Holidays to all! Hope its a good one

Excellent article, great for anyone new or who needs a quick refresher (like me) before starting a new project.

Great resources, but still need time to master PHP language.

@Mike – No not exactly. That will resume in January on the ThemeForest blog. “PHP for Absolute Beginners: Video Series”.

I’d let Drew write them…but I want it for myself!

Great tutorial! But I have a question:
I’m a big ASP.net/c# developer. What would be the reason to choose PHP over that technology?

I know VERY little about PHP, I guess thats why I’m asking.

Great resources for learning PHP.

I noticed the link for “Regular expressions introduction” points to the same link as the secure file upload link.

@Kenny – I’m into ASP.NET as well. For business applications, I still think that ASP is the way to go.

On the other hand, PHP is much, much easier to learn. You’ll learn it in a fifth the amount of time it takes to learn ASP.NET.

But I still love both!

Jeffrey, I am looking forward to it, I found the original series very helpful.

@Jeffrey Way – I mostly write business applications with database backends. What application examples can you give that would be written efficiently in PHP?

Thanks!! I’m still bookmarking this post

TYhanks very much, very informative!

I am following the newbie tutorials and it is really great!

Useful. I’ve been going over your “PHP for beginners: a training regimen” post, and wished for more. I guess you’d really get what you wish for on Christmas eve

In terms of frameworks, you should really mention Kohana. It was originally based on CodeIgniter before getting a complete re-write, to the extent where it is now enhanced to work purely around PHP5 (no PHP4).

It is incredible compared to both CI and Cake.

Yet another great post. Thanks for the resources

This is great resource for starters in PHP.Thanks…

stop writing “your” when it needs to be “you’re”, get your language right man.

Great resources for beginners. I’ve written a similar post called:
PHP Tutorials Utopia: 13 Vital PHP skills for every novice PHP developer and solutions
you can check it here
http://acomment.net/php-tutorials-utopia-13-vital-php-skills-for-every-novice-php-developer-and-solutions/378

thanks man php is the best!

I need this, so thanks!

Wow !! this is a cool compilation of PHP resources all @ one place

Oh! Great for us beginners! I always wanted to learn this. Thanks!

Great post and threads, just what I’ve been looking for. Thanks.
I found it via popurls.com btw

This is absolutely brilliant!

I really thought I didn’t know that much of PHP, like secure pages, GD and security.

There’s one thing you could mention though: WEB SERVICES. That would really kick it to the top. If you have something about it, let me know! Thanks and grats!

Certainly an informative article. For those out there interested in Code Igniter -> yup it is an easy way to get started with php. There are many helper classes and libraries that you can drop in with one line of code. + great documentation and a great community.

Symfony and Cake are awesome but require you to use command-line syntax, which can be daunting (however i love the command line).

My advice would be to use a framework and don’t go the flat file way,as many intelligent developers have given you the helper files and classes to aid you with common tasks (forms, jscript, email attachments, pdf generators, etc etc.)

For you all out there thinking about Framework development consider Ruby on Rails as well. Rails is feature rich, and you can build apps quite quickly with the framework -> its just a matter of getting used to the syntax. It took me 30 minutes to develop a wiki with Rails including CMS, login and role management.

If you ask me Ruby’s syntax is much easier to read and if you are going to learn a new language then it could be Ruby. WOOT WOOT!!!

Here are some articles of interest:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html
http://andyjeffries.co.uk/articles/why-i-think-ruby-on-rails-is-an-ideal-web-development-environment

Performance.PHP is a relatively efficient web language. Scalability in your code and applications is very important and you can rely on PHP to serve as many web pages as you need efficiently (of course, it can’t help if your coding inefficiently).

you’re *not* your

great
Thanks for share this list !

re: Secure file upload with PHP.

That is anything but secure!
For starters anything uploaded should be saved outside the web root.
Thinking you’re safe by only accepting an image file is not a safety measure. Most image formats allow text comments where php code can be inserted.
I just worked through the security issues regarding file uploads and it takes some work to make it truly safe.

If you are serious about getting started and getting good at PHP do not go to all of these product websites and try to download and configure everything. You will get frustrated and lose learning time. Go get Xampp. It installs Apache, PHP, Mysql, Perl, and FTP server and configures it all to work together out of the box.

What is the best free php editor??

Awesome! Please keep ‘em comin’…I’d love to see one on writing a dynamic navigation (with and without a db).

You guys rock – I look forward to catching some screencasts!

Thanks! i really need something like this for my auto learning in the php world.
Guys, you rocks!

CodeIgniter ftw!

Thanks for posting this resource, I’ll definitely share it with my friends who want to get started

@Drew – The two best I’ve seen are probably http://www.hudzilla.org/phpwiki/index.php?title=Object-oriented_programming and php.net’s oop part of the manual (http://us.php.net/oop).

Amazing article, thanks tons for all of the links and resources!

MANY THANKS!!
I am new to PHP and I’ve been waiting for such tutorial.

THANKS again

Another solid framework is Kohana, which branched from CodeIgniter. It’s not the best documented, but it’s lightweight and comes with some interesting optional bundles (Google Maps library, etc.)

Fantastically useful article! Been looking to get started with PHP

Good collection thanx

This is great, wonders why CI is the first on the PHP framework list…:D

Great list!
I’ve worked with most of the frameworks mentioned. CI is great for small, simple and lightweight projects. Symfony i would only use with a massive server setup. Everything else gets Zend

Awesome article, just the thing i’ve been looking for! thats my Xmas day sorted then!

Greats!, but smarty template is easy too for newbe, aren’t u?

is it worth to learn Apache to improve PHP security? what do you think?

Nice write up, I would suggest http://www.phpvideotutorials.com to as a resource if you like to learn it with videos. From the basic free lessons to the paid how to create a small web app courses.

Awesome list. Also you should add phpunit framework in Step 4. When your application becomes complex phpunit will be your guard.

Nice article, perfect as refresher or newbie.

@Pieter Vriesacker Drew made 1 spelling error using *your instead or you’re, all other uses of your were correct. Don’t coding geeks such as yourself have anything better to do than proofread for typo’s?

Verry useful, I was looking for somting like this, thanx

yaawnnn!!! PHP!

Thanks a bunch for the links Douglas! For someone who is adding PHP to his arsenal, the links were a real help.

Happy Holidays!

This is great. Timing is perfect as I’m I’ve been planning to getting more into PHP.

Excellent list. php is certainly all over the web but I think it’s difficult to find good tutorials and resources when you’re starting to learn the language. Thanks!

Hi can someone please answer me. what should you learn first PHP or Ruby on Rails?
thank you.

Great article, I love the beginner tutorials

@Ryan – I’d recommend having a look at NetBeans – I’ve been using it for a while and am very happy with it. It’s free, and cross-platform.

good Stuff

thery nice

Hello. And Bye.

What an amazing article, without treating us PHP newbies like total dimwits. I will be using the stated articles to improve my grasp of PHP. Thanks and I’ve placed your first “DIGG” too as requested.
Cheers. Chris.

Nice article. I just don’t understand how PHP being “free” as an advantage. There is no programming language out there that will cost you anything. Performance wise, that’s arguable (compiled vs. interpreted)– it comes down to the code itself.

If you ask me, the major advantage of PHP is it being open-source and having the largest community (which means more resources available). Everything else isn’t.

Awesome article.
Beginners must read this article.
Thanks for sharing.