PHP? Learning and Use of...

[Deeku]

As of right now, I am good at HTML and CSS.

I wish to learn PHP, but I want to ask what road I should take to doing so. What I'd like to do with it is listed below.

I would like to be able to tie the forum into the website. (IE: On non-forum pages of the website where a user can see if they have new PMs, etc.) (More on this though at the bottom.)

Perhaps even my own type of log-in system.

A feature where a user can submit guild information via a form to be displayed in a list, but with administrator approval before it goes through.

Also, what forum would be best to tie into a website?

Those being my primary reasons, what do you recommend I do? Is there another language other than PHP that I should learn? Also, does anyone know any good tutorials for learning PHP?

Thanks. :)

[JonnyH]

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/
I used this website to self teach me PHP and it's excellent honestly. Learn, do alot of work, in a couple of months you may be able to make a propper good script.

[Deeku]

Thanks. :)

[krupux]

PHP normally goes hand-in-hand with MySQL.

One of the first article that thought me these was:

Kevin Yank's Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL
http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/php-mysql-tutorial

I can't locate the older version though (I think it was written a couple years back).

[NeadoDesigns]

For learning PHP, W3Schools is a great resource (http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp). Pixel2Life has some good PHP Tutorials (http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/php_coding/).

[dts]

You should install and configure Apach, MySQL to you Windows computer.

Then you should create you first program "HELLO WORD!".
Only after than you can stay PHP programmer...

:beer:

[liquidgraph]

PHP is the way to go, it's not easy at first, but a very valuable skill to learn. You'll be able to integrate forums like phpBB into your own sites as well as CMSs like Wordpress. I recommend the paid tutorials at Lynda.com (and no, I'm not getting paid to refer you there).

[bariteau]

If you are going to learn PHP, might as well learn Objet Oriented PHP (same language, different way of programming)