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Bojangles · 06-13-2008, 12:25 AM

Also, what books/tutorials or whatever do you suggest?

k0nr4d · 06-13-2008, 12:41 AM

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.

qxm · 06-13-2008, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by k0nr4d

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.

sounds reasonable ... very similar process with most programming languages... it took me a comparable amount of time to realize wtf C++ is about

brandonstills · 06-13-2008, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by k0nr4d

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.

k0nr4d · 06-13-2008, 01:26 AM

agreed. The best way to learn a programming language is by looking at other code.

Adultnet · 06-13-2008, 01:43 AM

you can never know it all... a good start is php.net

StuartD · 06-13-2008, 03:41 AM

I've been writing php for about 8 years now and I still learn new stuff all the time.
Sometimes it just comes to me, a better/faster way to do something... ohter stuff I see in other people's code.

Learn it as you use it, learn it as you need it, learn it as you do it.

Bojangles · 06-13-2008, 03:44 AM

Sounds like it's going to take me a while... Yikes.

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