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hey,

I was wondering what would be the best way to learn these programming languages, so that if I ever needed to do some coding, I wouldn't have to pay loads of money to a coder.

You could get started with online tutorials, google will return many if you search for php tutorials.. You can't go wrong with books though, so if you don't have a library nearby, you might want to fork up some cash.

Thanks, i'll look up some tutorials then. Can you recommend any?

Well, the last time I searched for a php tutorial is err.. I don't know when, so I can't really help you there

I would say there is at least two decent tutes for beginners on the first of search results if you searched for PHP tutorials.


As for the question about built in translator for a OS, I can't say I've heard of one but I'm sure there are addons.

About the OS translator - its just something that I realised no one has done yet.

Start by reading a mysql tutorial on w3schools, then fiddle with that. Then google around, there are plenty of tutorials to teach you how to use php and mysql together. You can accomplish some pretty amazing feats with them.

if you wants to develop your knowlledge you can download any open source script, then you can learn how its working

I learnt most of what I know about PHP through altering just about every script I've ever needed to use so that it does exactly what I want. If ever I come across something new and don't understand how to use it, I just search on phpfreaks.com for a tutorial or an explanation.

http://php.net/ and http://mysql.com/

Ok, my first bet would be google, but there is this resource I am eager to share with you: http://del.icio.us , I find it very useful for this stuff, as you search using keywords/tags and see links and how many people have bookmarked them. I always search there for common stuff, as in Technology most of the times the problems that show up are not new, and someone else has already encountered them and maybe, just maybe bookmarked the site there.

So, I'd suggest taking a look at:
http://del.icio.us/tag/php%2Bmysql%2Btutorial

All the PHP I've learned has been from editing scripts as I saw fit. I read a few books that ended up just confusing me...sometimes hands-on learning is the best.

Read some online tutorials and then just jump in and start writing some simple programs.

you learn much easier by doing especially perl

Well for Ubuntu installing is really EZ mode:

Installing apache: apt-get install apache2

Installing php: apt-get install php4
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php4
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Thats it, make for example test.php store it in /var/www and test it localhost/test.php

<?
#test.php
phpinfo();
?>

U got yourself php4 and apache working, for php5 same procedure but when u installing php5 you do this:

apt-get install php5
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Easy right?