I had no programming experience outside of VBA Excel macros and just jumped in with a project. I googled everything I needed. Within a month, almost everything

I had no programming experience outside of VBA Excel macros and just jumped in with a project. I googled everything I needed. Within a month, almost everything I needed was exclusively in the online PHP documentation manual. Start with a project. Build a login system, from user sign up to sign on. That will teach you sessions, user input validation and interacting with your database.