How long did it take you to learn PHP?

[Captain Tycoon]

How long did it take you to learn PHP of where you are now able to code scripts from scratch?

[anantshri]

well it took around 15 days for me to understand programms and start writing my own scripts in php, but i give this credit to my serious studies of C, which helped me in syntax and other matter.

[zbigis]

I was learning about month had some troubles with it to understand everything , but now i think i learned it IF you would try you can learn it easily in about three weeks

[htnho]

It took me about 1 month, actually I meet some problems.If you have some basic knowledge, you can easily learn them about 2-3 weeks

[thegreenblob]

I've been learning it for 6 months and still don't know it.

I know the basics, but that's about it. I've pretty much gave up at this point. lol. I'll try learning it again another time.

[sunken]

As was said above, having experience coding in C is a definite advantage, as PHP is really based on C with a few changes to syntax and added commands that make tasks easier than in C. I guess it took me a couple of weeks as well to really write something practical.

[agilius]

I had minimal C++ experience and I knew OOP from ActionScript. I learn the basics of PHP in one month of training. It's a grate programing language, but it can do the same thing in to many ways... it's a bit confusing.. just like C++ is

[xrvel]

I learned some Perl first (before PHP).
Therefore its somewhat easier for me to learn PHP.
The variable declaration, if-else, print()

[wasiflaeeq]

I have started learning PHP two days ago Using lynda Tutorial and w3schools.com

I have learnt most of it
thanks

[superbike]

It took me quite sometimes but every programming has logical standard including PHP , it is not hard learn, mostly if you already familiar with C