How can I get experience with php after learning theory

[spencer]

Hi, would anybody know where I can gain experience and practice my php skills online and do I need to download anything to use it.

[mlseim]

If you have a desktop or laptop PC, you can download WAMP for free.
Your PC will become it's own webhost server and you can program with PHP and create SQL databases.

All of that takes some technical skills, but there are many online forums that have tutorials and help, including YouTube.

Or, subscribe to a shared webhost account and you'll have your own real website to do whatever you want. You can get a cheap webhost account with a webhost such as cleverdot.com .... $40 for the first year, and that includes your own domain name.

I should ask "how did you learn PHP?" ...
How can anyone learn a programming language without actually doing real programming?

[spencer]

If you have a desktop or laptop PC, you can download WAMP for free.
Your PC will become it's own webhost server and you can program with PHP and create SQL databases.

All of that takes some technical skills, but there are many online forums that have tutorials and help, including YouTube.

Or, subscribe to a shared webhost account and you'll have your own real website to do whatever you want. You can get a cheap webhost account with a webhost such as cleverdot.com .... $40 for the first year, and that includes your own domain name.

I should ask "how did you learn PHP?" ...
How can anyone learn a programming language without actually doing real programming?

Thanks. I have just been learning from w3schools and learning all the functions and constants mainly.

[ragnar]

Thanks. I have just been learning from w3schools and learning all the functions and constants mainly.

In my experience learning web development and languages learning from places like w3 school ( which i would classify as theory ) and wherever are a good start. They need to be combined with a project of your own think of something you'd like to create, think of the functions like like it to have and how you could possibly use php to achieve that then try and try many times you wont get it, there will be a syntax error here or a awesome function you never new about there putting things into practiCe allows you to expand a more important parts of programming, logic, language concepts and the biggest problem solving.... syntax can always be referenced.

[Triqa]

Best option is to create some project. When working on website, your coding skills will grow much faster .
To get started, just use the PSPad editor it will provide clear code highlighting.