This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. These tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to embrace PHP 5, making parts of it suitable for those of you who already have worked with PHP 4 in the past.
If you came here to learn about elementary PHP 4 or basic PHP 5, this is for you. Enjoy!
- PHP 101 (part 1): “Down the Rabbit Hole”
An introduction to PHP’s variables and operators. - PHP 101 (part 2): “Calling All Operators”
The rest of the PHP operators (there are many), and simple form processing. - PHP 101 (part 3): Looping The Loop
Basic control structures explained. - PHP 101 (part 4): The Food Factor
Arrays, PHP array functions, and what it all means. - PHP 101 (part 5): Rank and File
Everything you’re ever likely to need to know about dealing with external files from a PHP script. - PHP 101 (part 6): Functionally Yours
All about functions, arguments, passing by reference, globals and scope. - PHP 101 (part 7): The Bear Necessities
A gentle introduction to object oriented programming in PHP 4 and PHP 5. - PHP 101 (part 8): Databases and Other Animals – Part 1
All about connecting to a MySQL database from PHP, using the mysql or mysqli extensions. - PHP 101 (part 9): SQLite My Fire! – Part 1
Introducing another database: SQLite. - PHP 101 (part 10): A Session In The Cookie Jar
Sessions and cookies – how to keep track of visitors to your site. - PHP 101 (part 11): Sinfully Simple
An introduction to PHP’s easiest method for dealing with XML. - PHP 101 (part 12): Bugging Out – Part 1
Basic error handling. - PHP 101 (part 13): The Trashman Cometh – Part 1
A primer in basic security. - PHP 101 (part 13): The Trashman Cometh – Part 1
Putting the pieces together – a first Web application. - PHP 101 (part 15): No News is Good News
Creating a simple RSS news aggregator.
fuente:
http://devzone.zend.com/6/php-101--php-for-the-absolute-beginner/
