Learn PHP & MySql

[TimTDP]

I can develop in Microsoft Access but want to learn PHP & MySql
What is a good book to use? I like having a book rather than referring to a web page or ebook.

Thanks in advance

 

[Pada]

Hi Tim,
Do you have any experience with HTML, Javascript, SQL or any other programming languages?

The way Zend (the people who developed PHP) the beginner PHP online training course is structured really looked good, but it is pretty expensive at like $1000 per course: http://shop.zend.com/en/php-training-bundle.html?src=bundlepage#additional

Unfortunately I never had proper PHP training, so I can't recommend anything in specific, even though I code in PHP & MySQL on a regular basis.

What I can tell you is that I use:
Netbeans as my IDE for PHP. It auto completion works very well if you add Java/PHPDoc style comments to objects/classes/functions.
xdebug is a terrific PHP plugin that helps you with debugging and Netbeans can integrate with it too.

 

[SBSP]

I know you said that you don't want to refer to a website the whole time, but for starters
Look at w3schools, I would recommend it, you can always save the pages to file, "Bit of a schlep", but its not very picture intensive so it really doesn't use that much bandwidth (if that is why you don't want to connect the whole time)

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

W3Schools + Notepadd++ and + CSS (Also on w3schools) teaches you allot.

In the above mentioned link start from the menu on the left and work your way down.
I promise you will learn a great deal.

If you also have an i pad there are some manuals that you can down load with example code snippets on each "Syntax Topic" copied from http://php.net/manual/en/index.php

when i dont have anything to do , Whils my GF is watch E! news on TV i like to browse through the manual to see what else you can do with PHP.

 

[Pada]

W3Schools is awesome for HTML (layout, styling, tags, etc.) and also for Javascript, but not as much for PHP in my opinion.

Also, Notepad++ is good if you just quickly want to patch something together, but if you're going to work with Object Oriented stuff or do more advanced/bigger projects, I'd strongly recommend a decent PHP IDE. Netbeans is OK (better than Notepad++) for PHP, but it is most definitely not the best, but it may be the best free one out there (or at least that I know of).

 

[koeksGHT]

W3Schools + Notepadd++ and + CSS (Also on w3schools) teaches you allot.

That's the way to do it