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1. EMG
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   This might be an unusual question to ask everyone, but what the hey. :)

   Does anyone have any suggestions on where/how/examples to learn WP-useful PHP from?

   For instance, here are some useful functionalities in specific WP themes I have encountered that are, to my knowledge, PHP-specific:

   - making consecutive posts or comments odd and even numbered accordingly, which therefore allows for separate CSS stylization of odd and even numbered posts

   - breadcrumb trails and showing that you are viewing page 3 out of 10 pages worth of content or something similar

   I'm not completely new to PHP and can code a bit on my own and can read (mostly) alter and modify (sometimes, depending) other people's codes, but I would love to be more proficient at it so I can write code without 'cheat sheets'.

   Problem is... I honestly don't know where to start to learn such useful things. I'm familiar with JavaScript and I'm an (X)HTML and CSS junkie if that helps any.

   Anyone have any pointers or guidance or articles or examples that they'd care to share?

   Please and thank you!

2. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I've found these helpful:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference
   http://us2.php.net/manual/en/index.php

3. EMG
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hey there! Thanks for the links! :)

   I did check the Template Tags and the like in the Codex already (forgot to mention it) and I found them to be invaluable in understanding how WP Themes work in conjunction with PHP.

   The PHP manual, however, I have not managed to look at and I will do so.

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