Any recommendations for a ‘fast track’ way to learn the rudiments of pHp?

The person concerned is fine with HTML and can work with C sharp (can’t find the hash key on this silly keyboard). Turning theory into practical applications is quite important too.

Any thoughts anyone?

Have a look here, from a few weeks ago.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/learning-to-code

If already knows how to program (ie from C#) then should have a good idea of what is needed, therefor get him/her to build a basic project and just lookup functions on php.net (some useful comments in there too). Definitely will want to check websites for best practice re security (and aforementioned comments).

Maybe this might be worth a try too:
http://www.cs2php.com

Don’t know how well maintained it is as github seems down.

Also, I’m assuming the person in question won’t be just creating plain php. They will be using some sort of framework? Symfony? Drupal? WordPress? Something like that?

Strongly suggest to them to get involved in the community attached to that. Absolutely the best way to learn.

Rachel

Assuming that allthegear is correct then this book worked for me. It was enough to do what I needed and get me going practically

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1491918667/ref=zgm_bs_6133986011_1/153-2376317-0714947?ie=UTF8&sr=1-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65

Probably just one of those online learning courses, depends what the end goal is… if you know what that is it’s much easier to give advice