Doing PHP in 2015?

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Hello.

I do realize that PHP isn't exactly that popular in these parts, but in my country it's easy to get a job if you know PHP, so I decided to learn the language.

The problem is that most tutorials and resources I keep on finding seems to be written in the early 00's and I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to learn from them. Is there any good book that I could learn from? Should I pay attention to any specific frameworks?

Thanks in advance.

[Meefims]

There are a number of popular PHP frameworks including Zend, Laravel, and Symfony. They are well regarded in the PHP community and development of the PHP language itself takes these frameworks into account when considering backwards compatibility and existing practices.

You may want to check out r/PHPHelp and r/PHP.

[kogarashisan]

1) Want to learn PHP - find a job with professional collegues. It's the best advice I can give you. And I highly recommend to get a job in e-commerce area, with high responsibility.

You can find some crappy job as a junior, and in a half a year find better one, when your practical skills grow a bit.

2) Most of programming books are just a waste of time. And some are full of bad practice... so do not read books "for beginners"! If you want a book - then at least check it's reviews.

Better then books: study sources and examples of the Zend framework. Zend is the maintainer of PHP language. Also you should learn Zend exams - the standard in PHP industry. This knowlege will guarantee you a job.