I really enjoyed Rails for Zombies and the myriad of online courses teaching Rails.
This is the best way to learn for me: jump right in with a project and a reference book basically.
Is there a PHP course out there like that that you can recommend?
PS. I’m interested in making themes/plugins for WordPress but I find that my knowledge of PHP itself is pretty weak, so it’d be neat to do some novice course.
I haven’t actually used this site, but it appears to be similar to RfZ based on using video as the delivery media:
http://www.phpvideotutorials.com/free
As a note, some content is free and some is not.