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The way I became a journeyman PHP-er was to mess around with Wordpress. There are enough resources out there that Wordpress will give you the basic knowledge.
by randall 16y ago
The way I became a journeyman PHP-er was to mess around with Wordpress. There are enough resources out there that Wordpress will give you the basic knowledge.
That's not to say it's good or talented knowledge, but it's basic knowledge. (People don't like that Wordpress mixes templating with code. It's unelegant and sorta gross.)
- alinajaf 16y agoThis is not an attack on you personally but I absolutely abhor the inner workings of wordpress and would thoroughly recommend against it for a beginning developer. A much better approach would be to start a simple html/css based website and start abstracting out common elements, building a templating system, get content from a database, dispatch http requests with a front controller until you've got something that looks like an MVC based system. Then you start from scratch and do it again, learning from the horrible code you wrote the first time. Eventually you realize that a framework does it better than you and learn to use rails, zend etc.
- randall 16y agoFor me, it was really about speed. I used Wordpress because I could learn it quickly and I had a modified blog (my goal) as quickly as possible. I didn't have to worry about learning how to connect to a DB, etc. Today, I actually hate Wordpress as much as you do. I now use Crowd Fusion whenever possible, but Wordpress's introduction to PHP helped a lot.