“I like solving problems — I don’t like programming. It’s tedious,” said the creator of PHP on stage at our DevBeat conference.

A senior Google database expert loves the JIT compiler, but others doubt its worth and say it could be hard to maintain.

You need to find a programming tutorial (that uses PHP) and start from there. If that's the level you're starting from, just creating this thread and asking questions is going to be way too ...