I'm new to PHP, should I use this software?

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[quote author="Derek Allard" date="1183448673"]My opinion (for what its worth) - I think that you could learn PHP with CodeIgniter, provided you paid careful attention to the "whys" and less on the "how" during the learning. I wrote about it on my blog once.[/quote]

Possible by using CodeIgniter as a point of comparison and reference, but I'm not sure this will work for every person--some people tend to have natural skills where they can reverse engineer just about anything, not just programming code. They can look at any finalized result (product) and break it apart mentally to get to the mechanics of why and how it was created. The original poster sounds like one of those people.

However, you still need to know the basic fundamentals of programming to get to the point where you can say 'why' and extensions to those basics are summarized in xwero's post about learning object-oriented programming. About learning other programming languages, learn the basic fundamentals of one language and relate what you already know (a point of reference) to any new language (a point of comparison). If you have a solid foundation in knowing the basics, learning new languages gets fairly easy and almost natural as you get involved in projects where the use of multiple programming languages becomes necessary.