PHP Tutorials?

[Dyndrilliac]

Does anyone know any good, informative, straightforward PHP5 tutorials?

Edit To Rabbit: Thanks for being a dick, and avoiding an answer because I made a typo. It's such a joy to know such individuals abound.

Now if someone could be helpful, that would be great.

[R.a.B.B.i.T]

Die banana.

http://www.php.net/

[Blaze]

http://www.phpfreaks.com/

May I ask what the typo was?

[Dyndrilliac]

I hit 6 instead of 5. Anyway, thanks Blaze.

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

psst...are you sure you want to use PHP?

[Dyndrilliac]

Why not? I have been told it is very simple, yet powerful to do most if not all of the things I may require, and is nearly universally supported.

[Mangix]

PHP is evil. i cant understand its syntax cause of its many symbols. i was just lucky to make a MySQL PHP Script. anyways go to http://www.w3schools.com and http://www.tizag.com/phpT/

[Warrior]

PHP is simple, fun, and useful. Then again I don't develop for a large amount of people (nor have I tried so that comparison is out of my hands) but IMHO it's a good resource to have under your belt.

[Arta]

Why not? I have been told it is very simple, yet powerful to do most if not all of the things I may require, and is nearly universally supported.

It isn't in wide use yet. PHP4 is still standard. If you're just coding for yourself, then that doesn't matter, but if you seek to work on existing projects or want to undertake contract work, PHP4 would be a wiser choice.

[Dyndrilliac]

Well, I'm not seeking to make a career out of web dev, I just need a powerful serverside language that is supported on most webservers (According to my research, CGI/Perl and PHP are supported the most among webservers).

[MyndFyre]

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/  <-- my favorite place on the web for almost anything related to web dev. 

[Mitosis]

www.spoono.com has some good tutorials for precise projects. www.kirupa.com is another excellent development website.

[This]

The best tutorial site ever made (this site is like good-tutorials only it has a HUGE variety of different tuts for all kinds of applications).

http://www.pixel2life.com

I personally recommend PHP4 because a lot of people use it these days and that gives you a better chance at learning it.  With PHP5 on the other hand, there really isn't a wide variety of good (well explained) tutorials out there for it.

[Mitosis]

http://www.edesignz.ca/tutorials.html -- one right now, uploading the one that a staff member made, it's in depth...new site

[dubya]

PHP is awkward because of the strange symbols? Like?

The fact is that any hosting account which allows CGI will run just about any program with CGI support. This includes PHP. Other more general purpose languages, such as Perl and sh, can also be used. Or, in case you didn't know this, C, C++, even basic - if you can compile it for the platform, you can run it on it. The truly awkward part about CGI is when apache is pretending that Windows is Unix by doing extra work for it (i.e., looking for a shebang).

The only reason you are allowed to use Perl is because Unix, the system on which the Internet, HTTP, and WWW (the program) were built, supports text applications via the aforementioned shebang. The reason most web hosts with CGI support support Perl programs is because 99+% of them are running a Unixish system (such as GNU/Linux), which comes with perl. Likewise, sh, csh, ksh, python - whatever other interpretters come with the system can be used. Just PHP gets mod_php and sometimes Perl enthusiasts who don't mind changing how they do everything get mod_perl.