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Bobbo_the_Beggar · Aug 29, 2006, 05:08 PM

Does anyone know of a good, easy-to-understand, free PHP tutuorial that I can download and learn from? I am highly interested in utilizing the PHP server my website is hosted on. Thank you.

rudi_in · Aug 29, 2006, 05:19 PM

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Try this link. Hopefully it will get you started.

W3SCHOOLS

There are lots of good tutorials here.

RickJ · Aug 30, 2006, 02:55 AM

Here are a couple that have been recommended to me (although I must admit I've not learned PHP yet)

http://www.zend.com/php5/abs/index.php
www.phpfreaks.com

I'd think the top hits here would be good ones to check out too.

LTheobald · Aug 30, 2006, 04:38 AM

I agree with all the links above - PHP Freaks being my favourite. Some others are:

http://php.resourceindex.com/
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ - True not a tutorial but it's invaluable!

And for a super quick tutorial...

Open Notepad.

Enter the following:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>My First PHP Page</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
echo 'Hello World!';
echo '<br/>';

$a = 7;
$b = 12;
$c = $a + $b;
echo "$a + $b = $c";
?>
</body>
</html>

Save this as test.php
Upload the test.php file to the folder you store your regular HTML pages
Point your browser to the address of your web site followed by "test.php". For example http://www.mywebpage.com/test.php

You should get a page saying:

Hello World
7 + 12 = 19

Finally try changing this line:

Code:

echo "$a + $b = $c";

to use single instead of double quotes and see what happens.

Bobbo_the_Beggar · Sep 9, 2006, 07:21 PM

Thank you, everyone. I appreciate your comments!

Dadaja · Sep 3, 2010, 02:44 AM

PHP tutrial is one of the best from online tutorials

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