[candiddream]

I will start off by saying that I don't have the knowledge or experience to teach anybody php (or any programming language for that matter) but wanted to share a couple of sites that I have found that is helping me out quite a bit.

The first site is http://www.codecademy.com/. Great site and free so you don't have to worry about paying anything to learn basics up to intermediat level coding.

The second site I found is https://laracasts.com/ where there are some free tutorials, but most of it is paid and not for much to get great training. This site is more geared towards the laravel framework so keep that in mind.

I hope you all enjoy.

[Anima Templi]

Codeacademy is great for familarizing yourself with the syntax. But I won't recommend a complete noob at PHP to throw himself into the different frameworks and MVC's etc.

[candiddream]

That is a good point which I didn't take into account. Thank you for the reply.

[hackarchives]

Let me tell you how i learnt. I was completely unfamiliar with PHP. I researched on google and came to know about PHP. Next target was to learn it but the question was how? I googled some basic PHP tutorials and then i knew how PHP worked and basic syntax but how did i gain the knowledge about advanced features, how to create PHP based tools? Simple, Google.I started off with a basic blog idea which was already implemented. Now the issue i faced was how to create a login page which pointed me towards more tutorials.I saw, learnt and improvised. By reading many tutorials, i could use whatever method i liked best. Then i kept working on and using google for any queries and i kept learning. So my suggestion is not to limit yourself to a particular website because you will be limited to a particular set of knowledge. And if you wish to learn then learning by developing is what i suggest.