Starting to learn PHP?

Question

PHP

Good afternoon, I need advice from experienced specialists.
At the moment I work as a system administrator, I perform all sorts of small tasks (mostly everything works and nothing breaks, the fleet is 12 machines). There is a lot of free time, yesterday I decided to dig into php and see what and how. At the moment, I have almost 0 knowledge in web development, I can write a couple of tricky selects, fix html and css. Day X came and I opened php.net and the wiki and started reading. I realized that I didn’t understand half of what was written, I began to google all the technologies and terms I didn’t know, as a result, by the end of the evening my head was swollen, 100 open tabs in the browser and, in my opinion, the time spent was practically nowhere. Today I decided to try to move from theory to practice, started setting up the environment for development, downloaded a couple of books, bookmarked video material. And again the same thing, lamp, wamp, xampp, Vagrant and other things began to make me sad,
Now the question is, where to start? is it worth trying to install linux and other things at the near-zero level, or should I use the time to study php, html, css, mysql and try to master it as necessary?
At the moment it is win7, and Vagrant is installed for something, without configuration.

Answer 1

If you don't understand the basics, then start with them... No need to immediately try to understand all the technologies and techniques of PHP... Install xamp and just start writing basic examples... A good start for absolute beginners in PHP