PHP video tutorials

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Can anyone recommend me some video tutorials to learn PHP? Price isn't a problem. I can hack my way through PHP quite well but I never learned it "properly" and I want to start taking it seriously and learn again the right way so to speak.

Something that will teach me the proper effecient way to do everything from basics to very advanced.
 
If you want to learn it properly then you need to learn OO PHP. I've just had a look through those video tutorial titles and there's not one mention of objects...

Do they have to be videos? I really recommend
PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice 3rd Edition (Expert's Voice in Open Source) [Paperback]
Matt Zandstra (Author)
ISBN-10: 143022925X

Which is a fantastic book. Once you've got the basic OO stuff down, learn a framework like Zend or Symfony, it's incredible how much you can pick up from playing with other peoples code, and I know that the symfony docs in particular teach good practices from the off.
 
The youtube link I gave, the guy has done a series on PHP OOP, i've watched a few and they are good, but watch the beginners vids first or learn some basic PHP first before you watch OOP.
 
lemonade said:
The youtube link I gave, the guy has done a series on PHP OOP, i've watched a few and they are good, but watch the beginners vids first or learn some basic PHP first before you watch OOP.
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Ah ok, they weren't in the list and I didn't go digging around. I'm not suggesting the vid tutorials are a bad idea, just that if he can hack together basic PHP already then it's probably time to start learning OO techniques.
 
^ Didnt say you were :p I think it depends on the person, videos can be more engaging for those who like learning visually, watching someone else code and explain gives you could scope of how things work. If OP already knows some basic PHP, then watch those OOP videos and read some books as LazyManc said. If not I would recommend learn the basics, so when your watching or reading about PHP OOP, you at least know what a variable, array etc is and how to create them at the very basics, otherwise you would just get really confused.
 
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The only (quite) good PHP video tutorials I've seen are the ones by leighmac (http://www.phpvideotutorials.com/).

There's 6 video series in total. In three of them he starts sites from scratch usually rolling his own mini mvc framework and utilises good coding practices (design patterns, separation of concerns - although in the earlier tutorials doesn't use OOP). In the other three he uses CakePHP. I also like that he really seems to love what he's doing, gets over-excited in the videos :p

Edit: Actually, ignore my post. I'd recommend those after you have a solid grasp on the basics.
 
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I would second the Kevin Yank one, also there is Think Vitamin by Carsonified, they know what they're on about. (But it's still rather new)
 
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