You don't. There's enough shitty PHP out there already, from people who "learned quickly" (read: half-assed it). Don't be another one of the idiots trying to learn just enough of the language to be ...
“Understanding technology and controlling it with code is becoming the next part of literacy,” said Ryan Carson in a phone chat this morning. “No one will be able to succeed in their job in the future ...
Learning on the MVC pattern also means if you ultimately get fed up with PHP the transition to a new framework in another language will be smoother where as learning something like Drupal or Wordpress ...
In 2004, when Mark Zuckerberg sat down to create the site that needs no introduction, he chose PHP. Moving forward the code grew and it is currently one of the biggest websites the world has ever seen ...