[lakrasia]

I started learning php in April. I have many years of programming experience, but personally I find it hard, because of the way it mixes in with html and mysql. I often find I have to spend days on a few lines of code. For example, I remember one problem I had where the data was actually being mistaken for programming code - miracle I ever sussed out that one - I have never worked before with a language that writes itself, but that's sort of how php works and to me, it seems full of paradoxes that I can't even describe, but I like mind games, luckily.

It's great when you do get a bit working, because a few lines can do a lot.

Agree with Ianm - get bits of code off the Internet and play around with it.

... and yes, I'm stuck right now in a confusing logic problem with it, trying to do something which in any other language would be piddly easy, so maybe I'm biased, but this happens a lot.