Topic: I need to learn WordPress/PHP/webdev stuff really fast

[WindAndConfusion]

What do I do? Are there (very up-to-date) books I can read? Is there a guide or something someone can point me to? Perhaps a forum?

Oh, and knowing about forum management would also be helpful.

[WindAndConfusion]

All of you suck.

[iPPi]

I've done some web development for my 4th year engineering project, but it was ASP.NET based using C# as the code behind and AJAX.  Unfortunately, I still feel my web development skills are very much inferior to offer any help.

[Cools]

Do you have programming experience?

It's a very broad question and you can find a lot of information by doing a simple search on Google. PHP.net would be a good start on how to get started with PHP.

WordPress isn't too hard to setup and most web servers have everything you need to get started. If you're familiar with how to setup and configure your own local server, then you can play with it on your own machine. You can get a lot of things done with just a little knowledge of HTML, CSS and PHP.

Otherwise, you're looking at a potentially long journey into HTML, CSS, PHP, Databases, etc.

[Antares]

I've had good luck using w3 schools as a resource

http://www.w3schools.com

There are several different types of tutorials, and technically you could start from scratch, I generally use it as a resource to look up code examples if I can't remember something.

[Ghandi]

PHP 101