How easy is it for a person who knows nothing about coding to learn PHP by themselves?
If you can dedicate yourself to it, you can learn pretty much any language in 6 months or so, maybe less. If you are reading one chapter a night, that is a different story. There is no substitute for hands on development work. Think of something you would like to do and then work towards that, not just follow exercises in a tutorial. As a previous poster said, a bit of knowledge of SQL server may not be a bad idea either. Good luck!
I’d say it would take about a year to get to any sort of standard at PHP starting from "hello world". Don’t forget to learn SQL too because they go hand in hand.
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If you can dedicate yourself to it, you can learn pretty much any language in 6 months or so, maybe less. If you are reading one chapter a night, that is a different story. There is no substitute for hands on development work. Think of something you would like to do and then work towards that, not just follow exercises in a tutorial. As a previous poster said, a bit of knowledge of SQL server may not be a bad idea either. Good luck!
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It really depends on the person, while some are slow learners they can take a bit of time, compared to fast learners, they can learn it really easily.
I learned PHP in a few months, and I consider myself a fast learner.
Maybe head to your public library, check out some books on PHP.
Even look up "PHP tutorials" on google, and you’ll fine multple.
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