Laracasts is very good, you can try some of the free courses to see how you like it. Here is the php route of courses. Just skip over the Laravel based lessons if they aren't of interest to you.

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First, your case is not at all unique, many people I know did the same. Means you can do it for sure.

Next, obviously, you need to get the experience. Obviously, the best way is to get a job. It was much simpler in my time, a gamer buddy approached me and asked if i want to work on his e-commerce. I looked up a PHP tutorial, successfully run the code from it and said yes. Nowadays it's almost impossible I presume, to get a job without any experience, given the number of people willing to write PHP. But nevertheless you can always teach yourself first.

Luckily, PHP has a very low learning curve, literally anyone can pick it up. However, it makes a very big problem also. Many people who just picked up a few hints of the language, consider themselves gurus and start teaching PHP left and right. I'd say there is only 1 good online tutorial to 99 courses/videos that would teach you how to be a very bad programmer. Ones from some Dani Krossing guy on youtube are especially bad. Most of coursera and tutorialrepublic are also a complete crap. The best course would be to buy a book. There are bad examples also, notably from Welling/Thomson which was written like 20 years ago and taught you extremely bad practices, with all subsequent editions being but a facelifting, making it comically self-contradicting. But at least the ratio is not that bad with books, I'd say 1:1. I would have recommended PHP & MySQL by Jon Duckett which is aimed exactly at your level, but it's not out yet. While it's not available I could suggest Modern PHP by Josh Lockhart, though it could be a bit hard for the first book.

Either way, give me a holler if you need some guidance/help. Or there is r/learnphp where you are more than welcome to ask post.

A good thing, PHP is very strong in France. Given your native country, I would suggest to look at Symfony framework which, although being internationally acclaimed, originates in France and getting the information and support in two languages is better than one. But a framework is a bit a distant goal for now, you need a solid foundation with basic PHP and mysql.

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You’ll get undoubtedly get some hand-wavy people in this thread- “well in my day we had to write a c++ compiler in Spanish before we could ever even THINK about a framework” . The truth is, starting with a framework makes it difficult to differentiate language constructs from framework constructs. So, if your going to go right into a framework, you need to train yourself to be really diligent about research when something seems like magic. Otherwise, have fun learning! More on reddit.com

For the love of Christ: beginners, this is how NOT to learn php.

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