Should I study elephant now?) If so, please tell me how best to start learning PHP. Please give a constructive and serious answer. Thank)

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Of course worth it!
Php's most ardent non-lovers worked with version 4
The following nonlovers with version up to 5.4
Now php7 and it is beautiful, for php nonlovers, even the arguments end.
Works on php sea

  1. Go through any online lessons and read php documentation - This will give you a framework and understanding.
  2. Then take the Laravel framework (it is simpler than the others and the documentation is simple) and write a blog with comments and authorization.
  3. Now try to write a blog with comments and authorization on your bike.

Everywhere it is advised to first take Step 3, then 2. But I advise you, in the order I wrote. This will give you an understanding of how php applications are built.
And then, when you write on your bike, then you will have an understanding of how to collect a bike.
And yet, earlier in all the textbooks wrote PHP + MySQL. But instead of MySQL, I advise you to use PostgreSQL

PS War Laravel vs Yii and PostgreSQL vs MySQL can not be declared

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    php lovers always exist and will be like religious people: there is a god who does not believe - must be burned ...... This cannot be changed even with php 100 =) - Alexey Shimansky
  • Language design is flawed. Some inconsistent function names and a jumbled order of arguments in functional array handlers are worth something ... And PHP7 does not change the situation. At all. - Dmitriy Simushev
  • I would like to take a look at the non-edible design of the language ) - OotzlyGootzly

Yes worth it. They don't like him very much, it causes too much controversy, but the threshold of entry is very low. There are a lot of projects written on it and it will be in demand for a long time. Any book that looks at PHP 5.4 and above will do; basically the same material is there. To understand, it is necessary to write a project from scratch.