looking for study partner/s to learn PHP!

greyhat

greyhat

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I am going to be attempting to learn PHP. i have some experience with javascript so i know how programming works and i want to move it up to the next level. if anybody is interested then leave a reply, we can use this thread and IM or whatever. I am starting off with just PHP - no MySQL for now. As a guide i will be using SAMS's 'teach yourself PHP in 10 minutes' so it will help if you are interested to get a copy (i have looked and can't find a torrent, if anybody has it as an e-book that would be great.. if not i'm afraid you're going to have to buy it!). I prefer SAMS books becuse they give you tasks, lessons and quizzes to complete unlike some of the others which are all reading.

The only other requirement is that you have access to a web server with PHP. This can be on your local machine. if you are not sure how to do this i can show you how to set up a test/development environment for free with WAMP2. I will leave this for a week or so and see if i get any interest. Incidentally, if there is anybody reading that is already a PHP elite-master then please make yourselves known if you would be willing to drop by now and then to give a few pointers. I will do my best to help anybody but some previos knowledge would be good as programming is not a skill that you can pick up overnigt!
Thanks for reading.
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I'm down. I was actually about to sign up for php lessons but why pay? This is a good idea. I can get the book too np. Let me know if you are interested. I only have some experience in (x)html and css. I have poked around with php shouldn't be too hard.
 
Yeah deffo. Like i said i will leave it a week so people have a chance to get ready. The book is split in to 10 minute lessons so we could do a few a week or something and just help each other out. If that works we can move on to some more advanced stuff. Thanks for the interest, watch this space!!
 
greyhat said:
I am going to be attempting to learn PHP. i have some experience with javascript so i know how programming works and i want to move it up to the next level. if anybody is interested then leave a reply, we can use this thread and IM or whatever. I am starting off with just PHP - no MySQL for now. As a guide i will be using SAMS's 'teach yourself PHP in 10 minutes' so it will help if you are interested to get a copy (i have looked and can't find a torrent, if anybody has it as an e-book that would be great.. if not i'm afraid you're going to have to buy it!). I prefer SAMS books becuse they give you tasks, lessons and quizzes to complete unlike some of the others which are all reading.

The only other requirement is that you have access to a web server with PHP. This can be on your local machine. if you are not sure how to do this i can show you how to set up a test/development environment for free with WAMP2. I will leave this for a week or so and see if i get any interest. Incidentally, if there is anybody reading that is already a PHP elite-master then please make yourselves known if you would be willing to drop by now and then to give a few pointers. I will do my best to help anybody but some previos knowledge would be good as programming is not a skill that you can pick up overnigt!
Thanks for reading.
Any gay comments will be prosecuted.
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I had 'teach yourself' for a few years and didn't get much out of it. The fundamentals are covered but the practical examples weren't really worth that much to me.

For affiliate marketing related stuff

Bluehatseo.com
slightlyshadyseo.com
Smaxor has basic scraper tutorial thats worth looking at, I forget the link.

But yeah, I'm down with partnering up on some practical shit.
 
Greyhat, don't take this the wrong way but what's the point? Learning PHP for the sake of learning PHP won't get you anywhere. I've seen your previous threads and you're hard at work trying to make a few dimes. That's good, you're grinding. But you lack direction man.

Start building campaigns, and when you actually need a script go out and find it. Then learn about how it works. Cause that way you got more incentive since once you figure it out - it'll mean better performance from your campaign and more monies in your pockets.

Dunno, but if you're that eager then good luck bro.
 
juntao65 said:
Greyhat, don't take this the wrong way but what's the point? Learning PHP for the sake of learning PHP won't get you anywhere. I've seen your previous threads and you're hard at work trying to make a few dimes. That's good, you're grinding. But you lack direction man.

Start building campaigns, and when you actually need a script go out and find it. Then learn about how it works. Cause that way you got more incentive since once you figure it out - it'll mean better performance from your campaign and more monies in your pockets.

Dunno, but if you're that eager then good luck bro.
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Thanks, i hear ya. As a career i want to be a web developer (i mean i will do anything if it pays but..). AM is high on my list but i want the freedom to be able to think of a website and just build it. Also, situations are starting to arise where i am missing out because i can't code my own stuff so im not just going to do the book and forget about it. I WILL be dabbling in PPC etc soon but i am getting a distinct vibe that the market is extrememley saturated, making it even harder for n00bs like me to make ground. If only i had known about this 5 years ago. But yeah thanks for the pointer i agree that i'm not really going anywhere, at least doing this i will gain some skills. I will give PPC a go soon.
 
"if you would be willing to drop by now and then to give a few pointers".

What do you need to know? I can help.
 
aмillionaírе;850768 said:
"if you would be willing to drop by now and then to give a few pointers".

What do you need to know? I can help.
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Thanks, that would be great. We just need a few people to subscribe to the thread and get us out of the shit if we get really stuck on something and maybe offer a few pointers if we are going off course. Sound like something you can do??
Thanks.
 
Why not just update in this thread?

Also, I found the "Head First" book series to be very easy to digest.

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**UPDATE** I will be providing everybody that is interested FTP access to a shared server so it is easier to compare notes etc... (you will still benefit from a local dev machine.).
Thanks.
 
Yep. The head first series is very big on practical exercises.

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Yep. The head first series is very big on practical exercises.

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Well i had a look and they look good - they are from O'Reilly which i didn't know. However there isnt one that just covers PHP and i dont want to complicate things with databases at the moment. thanks anyway.
 
MySQL with PHP is really, really easy.
And you won't get around DBs anyway, so jump right in.
(Really, it makes no sense to not learn a bit about MySQL)

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After much deliberation i have come to the conclusion that you are right. Headfirst with MySQL it is!!!
:D
 
greyhat said:
Thanks, that would be great. We just need a few people to subscribe to the thread and get us out of the shit if we get really stuck on something and maybe offer a few pointers if we are going off course. Sound like something you can do??
Thanks.
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Yeah, no problem. :rasta:
 
Here's some things I recommend:

TamperData! Why? So you can catch hidden post fields and know exactly what you can and can't do. Some sites are smart and they assign random numbers to hidden post fields which is ran against a mysql verification (it's like a captcha without the captcha, much more convenient for the end user), you would need to parse and send those random numbers in your scripts. You can also use TamperData to see your header requests, which is also important. Your scripts can be broken if it sends the wrong or no request.

Notepad++ or something similiar! Why? When you are writing a lot of conditions -> if($blah='blah') { } <- all of those open curly strings will have to be met with closing curly strings in a cascading order. Notepad++ automatically matches each open conditional with its closing curly strings. If you are doing this in raw text editors, especially if you have a large amount of code, this can become hectic and you might end up killing yourself.

RegexBuddy or a regex tester/debugger! Why? Let's be honest, you can't get much done in this realm of development unless you want to scrape some things and manipulate data. Regular expressions are a must, even with PHP's fancy explode, implode, you will deal with unique, long-stringed items that need to be parsed. For that, there only option is a homebrew regular expression crafted yourself. There are online regex testers you can access from a Google search, or you can just download one of the many applications.

Last on this short list but not least, PHP-CLI! Why? PHP wasn't made to be a robust spam and scraping machine, but that's exactly what it is and can be. PHP-CLI allows you to do a lot of non-webserverish things, it brings it to the level of perl. If you are on Linux, you can even fork PHP! You can interact with shell executions and there is no limit what can be done.

Fun fact: do you know that blogger.com's OCR can be broken 35% of the time with tesseract ocr, which was released by Google itself? Now you know!
 
Wow lots to digest there. I like the way you are going! Is there another text editor that does curly brace etc matching because i agree that it is invaluable but the find feature on notepad++ is currently broken. At the moment i am using crimson editor for dev then notepad++ for matching tags!!
 
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