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10-20-2014, 10:51 AM
Does anyone know of any good resources online for learning PHP? I was a ASP/SQL developer but left the field about 5 years ago and am looking to get back in to development.
I have had enough of the corporate world and am looking to get back in to something that will allow me to be more location/time independent.
Any suggestions on videos, development tools etc. would be greatly appreciated.
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10-20-2014, 07:41 PM
Cosigned on 456's assessment, I've been doing php for years. Once you get the broad strokes down, if you come from another structured OO language, learn a framework and learn it well. Wordpress is shitty and perpetuates shitty code, but damn if it doesn't pay the bills. You can pick up some pretty decent money doing Symfony2 and Laravel apps, as of late. I also recommend learning some front end javascript, specifically angular.js since a lot of web dev consulting gigs require at least *some* front end work, even if you just mock it up using twitter bootstrap. That will double (or more) your exposure to freelancing gigs. Code academy is probably the best resource for getting the broad strokes, then go directly to symfony's website for docs. PM me if you need any help.
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10-21-2014, 09:56 AM
I got lamp setup last night and played around a bit. I will roll through the code academy courses this week an go from there. Thank you again for the direction.
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10-24-2014, 12:39 PM
codecademy.com .There are dozens of online classes for programming now like ruby on rails.
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10-24-2014, 12:39 PM
I thought this thread was gonna be about P4P.