Tutorial recommendations

[nonsensitor]

Hi, I have a couple of questions:

1. Does anyone have any tutorial recommendations for an absoloute PHP beginner? I have done a little html and css coding to date but that is it.

2. Is PHP considered best practice from a w3c-compliant web development perspective? Is XML an alternative?

[nonsensitor]

Ah - have just noticed the great big "Tutorials" tab up there in the nav...how about I try that out before asking here?
;-)

[ronverdonk]

As for 1., there are several PHP beginners courses. The better ones are:
W3Schools PHP tutorials
Zend developer zone for absolute beginnners
PHPFreaks tutorials

As for no 2. PHP is a scripting (programming) language. XML is a data description method. You can combine both, i.e. processing XML with PHP.

Ronald :cool:

[nonsensitor]

Ok, that helps, thanks.

[lasithwaruna]

http://msconline.macon state.edu/tutorials/

[vssp]

w3schools.com is the best one fro beginners

[nonsensitor]

Thanks all for the recommendations . I'll give it a go.