I’ve heard of frameworks like Ruby and CakePHP. Should I proceed to learn them, now that I’ve learned the basics of PHP?
If so, which ones are preferred among PHP developers?
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I’ve heard of frameworks like Ruby and CakePHP. Should I proceed to learn them, now that I’ve learned the basics of PHP?
If so, which ones are preferred among PHP developers?
You’d probably first want to find a project you wish to work on. Whether it is a personal or a community project, find out what interests you and begin to build it.
Once you’ve decided on a project, you can pick a framework that you want to work with, and you’ll learn it much more effectively than you would ever learn it almost any other way.
You can look at this question to find out some frameworks that other developers enjoy using.
You might also want to look into learning coding theory over simply frameworks. Things like design patterns, object oriented programming, and other practices are very good, and will let your coding span across languages, as they deal with ideas instead of specific code.
You can find a lot of good information on coding theory and best practices simply by going through the top-voted StackOverflow questions. Once you get past all the cartoon posts, you can see some topics that might be interesting to you, such as code smells (you need to know them to avoid them), RSS feeds for programmers, pieces of advice from programmers, and so on.
You can also look at people who are in the same, or a very similar boat as you. The
self-improvementtag is filled with questions of people are looking for ways to improve themselves. Here are some examples:Finally, you might want to try answering some questions on StackOverflow. By teaching others, you can often learn a lot about stuff you already thought you knew.
This is coming from experience too. If you look at my list of answers, at this point I’ve answered around 430 questions, and from those I’ve gained a great amount of knowledge, as I’ve had to research each question and make sure I understand the subject before answering.
Furthermore, while answering, you are bound to come onto some interesting questions. All of my favorite questions are ones that I have learned something new from, and right now I’m up to 6 pages.