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Old 06-13-2008, 12:50 AM  
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Originally Posted by k0nr4d View Post
You never *KNOW* php. They keep coming out with new functions and stuff. Realistically, 6 months to have a grasp of whats going on, and 3-4 years before you start doing things efficiently.
I've found that studying other languages and frameworks have a huge impact on programmer efficiency and it translates across all languages. I became a much better PHP programmer after studying Ruby on Rails. Also, look into the source of open source packages. They have a lot of nice ways of doing things that you can learn from.
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