Ask HN: Best way to become a PHP freelancer?

So I noticed on craigslist under webdesign/software/internet jobs are mostly all PHP? Personally I find PHP easier than most languages but there are not enough good resources out there for learning the language?

Is there a good method for learning PHP that can get me employed as a freelancer? PHP has a lot of tools like Drupal, Wordpress, Magento but not sure which one to learn.

Also Ruby and Javascript seem to have up to date tutorials and interactive learning ways online but none for PHP? Does anyone know of any?