PHP Knowledge Acquisition.

[shimomura]

As to make the most of my time, I call upon your all powerful and knowledgeable minds to suggest to me the best literature we possess in our library on learning PHP. I'm ok with it containing info on mySQL as they are often coupled in education texts.

[Phage]

http://php.net/docs.php

It's as simple as that.

[Kulverstukas]

http://php.net/docs.php

It's as simple as that.

ditto.

[Schalla]

I wouldn't call the Docs a good repo to start learning PHP. The Docs are just a collection of commands with sometimes
incredible bad examples.

In the eBook Index is a link to:
Programming PHP, 3rd Edition
(https://evilzone.org/ebooks/ebook-index/)

Start with that. It should give you a faster introduction than reading every Doc Article.

CodeStyle Guidelines:
http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1/ (Read 0-5, links on the right side)

This is - in my eyes - the most used Style Standard for PHP.

[DaFunk]

As to make the most of my time, I call upon your all powerful and knowledgeable minds to suggest to me the best literature we possess in our library on learning PHP. I'm ok with it containing info on mySQL as they are often coupled in education texts.

I'll suggest this video series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5P9sZqFas

That's what really gave me the conceptual 'light bulb' moment. The rest has been hands on learning and just looking things up as I go. I use W3Schools PHP section for reference quite often, too: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_intro.asp

Good luck.

[shimomura]

Thanks. All of these have been helpful.