Can you become a PHP programmer in 6 months with intensive study?

I was told 2 years but if I study hard can I make that in 6 months? I have some light html skills. Thanks.

Can you become a PHP programmer in 6 months with intensive study?
I certainly feel you can do it, PHP is the easiest language i have every come accross. If you have never done web programming before it will take a few days to understand the concepts of data submission AJAX and so on. PHP is not about studying, php hardly has a syntax, and google is best and fastest reference book you will find in the world. I know many people who were good php programmers in less than a month.
Reply:Absolutely. I learned mySQL, PHP Sessions, and XML in one school semester. We built an inventory web system with all three technologies. We also built a hangman game using AJAX.





It may hard to learn on your own. We had a teacher. But, we had to read our textbooks to write the systems. They just gave us hints on the types of constructs to use. You could easily find out how to implement AJAX online.
Reply:With the correct outline of learning, yes, this would be easy. If this is your FIRST programming language, I don't think so. Just remember--PHP/SQL, OOP, and get a ref. manual. You should be just fine.
Reply:2 years!!! There's books that teach you in 21 days (not consecutive). Compared to other programming languages, like C, C++ or Java, PHP is relatively easy.
Reply:yup why not, depends on you. You may be a PHP programmer in an earlier time too.
Reply:thats really hard, but if u believe in urself and u think u can do it, go AHEAD ;)