title: Getting up and running with advanced PHP as fast as possible?
body: <p>I'm a experienced developer, usually developing in C# and Python, doing a lot of meta programming. To be honest: I don't like PHP, but the recent version look at least much more promissing that the older ones. I have to work in a PHP project in the near future, so I have to improve my skills in that area.</p>
  
  <p>I'm looking for resources to learn the details of the PHP language as fast as possible. I'm of course able to read the documentation and <strong>I'm NOT looking for some printed API documentation.</strong> </p>
  
  <p><strong>I would like to understand the design ideas behind the languages and what kind of meta programming is possible at all</strong>. </p>
  
  <p>Any hints?</p>