PHP & MySQL experience? (1 Viewer)

[Callistogenic]

I've been reading tutorials and books like crazy and I'm managing to wade through it. Just asking if anyone's got any experience and what things am I meant to watch out for?

 

[neuro_logik]

Being a programmer, all you need to know is that the most important thing in learning a language is practise! nothing makes up for experience, play with it and mess around with it. Stay up until 3 am cutting code! (I did that for a week and it wasnt nice in the end ) and look at other people's code a useful site would be www.freshmeat.net

 

[Jeo]

get phpdev from www.firepages.com.au

Try and build a program for a specific purpose, that is the best way to get experience.

 

[sunny]

My first PHP/MySQL program was a small scale guestbook program. It was good to make, maybe something like that.

 

[Fosweb]

I use PHP for the web: have done things like form mailers, password protection.

PHP + MySQL i used to build up my current website (http://fosweb.com)
Just a really simple blog with online submitting and a couple of message styles.

My recommendation: if you dont already have the PHP manual, then get it.
View online in English: http://www.php.net/manual/en/
Download (various formats): http://www.php.net/download-docs.php

 

[MedNez]

I suggest starting small as well, make a counter or something, then a simple add to database - pull from database script.

I used a custom login script for my site, then used it's base to code a profile system, comments, quote adding/browsing/rating etc all around a basic system that allows people to login.

Once you start small, you can build it up from there and your knowledge will grow exponentially