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The general guidelines to good learning resources are called out in this article:<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_11769-And-by-the-way-I-am-new-to-PHP.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_11769-And-by-the-way-I-am-new-to-PHP.html</a><br />
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Things specific to the transition from the familiar but obsolete MySQL extension, to the new and supported MySQL<i>i</i> and PDO are treated in detail here:<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/PHP_Databases/A_11177-PHP-MySQL-Deprecated-as-of-PHP-5-5-0.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/PHP_Databases/A_11177-PHP-MySQL-Deprecated-as-of-PHP-5-5-0.html</a>
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The general guidelines to good learning resources are called out in this article:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_11769-And-by-the-way-I-am-new-to-PHP.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_11769-And-by-the-way-I-am-new-to-PHP.html]

Things specific to the transition from the familiar but obsolete MySQL extension, to the new and supported MySQLi and PDO are treated in detail here:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/PHP_Databases/A_11177-PHP-MySQL-Deprecated-as-of-PHP-5-5-0.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/PHP_Databases/A_11177-PHP-MySQL-Deprecated-as-of-PHP-5-5-0.html]

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And if you want a good learning resource for jQuery, this book is pretty good. &nbsp;I have Edition One and will buy Edition Two shortly.<br />
<a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/store/jquery-novice-to-ninja-new-kicks-and-tricks/" rel="ugc">http://www.sitepoint.com/store/jquery-novice-to-ninja-new-kicks-and-tricks/</a>
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And if you want a good learning resource for jQuery, this book is pretty good.  I have Edition One and will buy Edition Two shortly.
http://www.sitepoint.com/store/jquery-novice-to-ninja-new-kicks-and-tricks/ [http://www.sitepoint.com/store/jquery-novice-to-ninja-new-kicks-and-tricks/]

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What are, or what is the best place online to take a course in PHP, OOP, PDO, JQuery and other languages?<br />
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What are the top <b>free</b> courses and the top <b>pay</b> courses?<br />
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I look forward to hearing back
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What are, or what is the best place online to take a course in PHP, OOP, PDO, JQuery and other languages?

What are the top free courses and the top pay courses?

I look forward to hearing back

PHP OOP PDO Online courses

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.

jQuery (Core) is a cross-browser JavaScript library that provides abstractions for common client-side tasks such as Document Object Model (DOM) traversal, DOM manipulation, event handling, animation and Ajax. jQuery also provides a platform to create plugins that extend jQuery's capabilities beyond those already provided by the library.

jQuery

SQL (Structured Query Language) is designed to be used in conjunction with relational database products as of a means of working with sets of data. SQL consists of data definition, data manipulation, and procedural elements. Its scope includes data insert, query, update and delete, schema creation and modification, and data access control.