Php classes or schools online?

knight13 · 06-30-2009, 03:23 AM

Does anyone know of any online classes or school type websites that teaches php where you can ask question to a person that is teaching you?

I have been looking, but all i really find are schools that you have to actually go to, i am looking for something where it is an online class or something like that, where i can do it at home.

I am not really looking for any type of video classes where i buy a video course, i need something where i can actually write to a instructor in real time to ask questions, i really do not even know if their is anything like this online, but i figured i would ask in case anyone knows of anything like this.

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Sorry i misspelled the word school in the title and i can not change it...

adamdecaf · 06-30-2009, 04:09 AM

http://youtube.com/edu has some open course ware courses from major colleges (MIT, Stanford, ect...) in programming/computer science. Other than that I don't know of any truly free places. (Besides forums and blogs like this)

knight13 · 06-30-2009, 04:14 AM

They do not have to be free classes, but it would be good if they where not really expensive.

codefreek · 06-30-2009, 04:23 AM

you should look into:
www.zend.com

knight13 · 06-30-2009, 05:39 AM

That zend training is probably good but it is a little more than i really want to spend, especially since it is only nine 2 hour classes if i could learn php in 18 hours i would not need a class.

That is the type of thing that i am looking for i would just like a course that teaches everything i need to know over a longer period of time.

codefreek · 06-30-2009, 07:01 AM

take a look at http://www.cbtnuggets.com/webapp/videos

knight13 · 06-30-2009, 07:18 PM

Thanks codefreek, i will check the videos out because i am not really finding anything online, that i want so i guess i will get a video course, to learn from. again thanks for the link.

codefreek · 07-01-2009, 12:54 PM

i changed the title for you ;)

knight13 · 07-01-2009, 08:45 PM

Thank you codefreek, i do not know what i was thinking when i spelled that. : )

cachepl0x · 09-26-2009, 03:26 PM

To be honest, it is incredibly easy to learn PHP. The way I learned is from reading tutorials, trying it out, failing, then reading the PHP website as if it were a bible. If you are smart (subjective(at least in my opinion)), you will delve into object oriented PHP first, as it is easier, modular, and faster to code in (for me it is, anyway).

knight13 · 09-26-2009, 11:19 PM

Yea that is true what you are saying but if someone who was new to php had a way to ask questions to someone who was trained to teach they would be able to learn php 10 times faster, then if they did it on their own. Me though i am going the teach myself route and i am learning a lot by myself and from asking questions in forums.