[BodShane]

Originally Posted by RichardM

I disagree somewhat, actually. I think PHP is pretty straightforward and relatively easy to learn when one considers its power. There's very little that can't be done with PHP. Its full name, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, is very modest.

I suggest you buy a book on PHP (SAMS or one of the Dummies books), and play with it. Write a few simple, but useful scripts. Learn the basics, and move on from there.

For PHP to be most valuable, you also need to have solid HTML / XHTML skills and at least a familiarity with databases.

Richard

PS: One more thing, and perhaps the reason why so many people consider PHP hard to learn, is that it is unforgiving in terms of syntax. The most common errors newbies make are leaving out a semicolon at the end of a line, problems with quotes, and improper syntax when using conditional operators. Any of these will crash your script. PHP does, however, give you a clue why it crashed, along with the line(s) of code; so you can start looking and learning there.

Richard, i would like you to show us a demonstrations of php codes and errors, that'll help understand better.

Regards,

Shane Phillips