What is a good beginners programming book for PHP? I like "dead trees"
more than reading stuff on my screen, so I am looking for a book.
Thanks!
Bob
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On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 01:42 +0700, shiplu wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Robert H
> > What is a good beginners programming book for PHP? I like "dead trees" more
> > than reading stuff on my screen, so I am looking for a book.
> >
>
> There are plenty of books in amazon.com
> Order one and start reading.
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Pretty much anything by O'reilly is a good buy. I've not had them steer
me wrong yet.
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On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Robert H
> What is a good beginners programming book for PHP? I like "dead trees" more
> than reading stuff on my screen, so I am looking for a book.
>
There are plenty of books in amazon.com
Order one and start reading.
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On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Robert H
> What is a good beginners programming book for PHP? I like "dead
> trees" more than reading stuff on my screen, so I am looking for a
> book.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bob
>
>
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On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Robert H
> What is a good beginners programming book for PHP? I like "dead trees" more
> than reading stuff on my screen, so I am looking for a book.
O'Reilly is good for getting the facts. You could start with Programming PHP:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926103/
Check the O'Reilly PHP page for more resources, some printed:
http://oreilly.com/php/
If you're looking for books that specifically cover PHP's OO features,
there are lots of older books on pre-5.3 features, like Zandstra's PHP
5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice (2004):
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-5-Objects-Patterns-Practice/dp/159 0593804/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260652305&sr=8-3
Although if you're new to OOP you may want to read more general books
on the subject and then work your way back to the features available
in the version of PHP that you need to use.
In general, the best publishers I've found are O'Reilly, The Pragmatic
Programmers, Apress and Packt.
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At 12:27 PM -0500 12/12/09, Robert H wrote:
>What is a good beginners programming book for PHP? I like "dead
>trees" more than reading stuff on my screen, so I am looking for a
>book.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Bob
Bob:
I've purchased and read literally scores of programming books and all
have value. In fact, I've never read a book that I didn't learn
something from.
However, IMO the best thing to learn in the beginning is that php
does not live in a vacuum. It is a server-side programming language
that cannot function to it's fullest without other languages.
As such, the best book I've read lately has been "PHP, MySQL &
Javascript" by Nixon published by O'Reilly. You can buy it on Amazon
for less than $27.00 and it's well worth the price.
Cheers,
tedd
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On 12/13/09 8:50 AM, tedd wrote:
>
> As such, the best book I've read lately has been "PHP, MySQL &
> Javascript" by Nixon published by O'Reilly. You can buy it on Amazon for
> less than $27.00 and it's well worth the price.
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
Thanks Tedd,
Bob
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Subject: [PHP] Re: Learning PHP
On 12/13/09 8:50 AM, tedd wrote:
>
> As such, the best book I've read lately has been "PHP, MySQL &
> Javascript" by Nixon published by O'Reilly. You can buy it on Amazon for
> less than $27.00 and it's well worth the price.
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
Thanks Tedd,
Bob
Yes that's a good book. Also check out the Zend certification material
(focuses a lot on security).
Also just doing tutorials and trying stuff yourself always helps.
Remember to get a PHP5 book!
Cheers
Angelo
http://www.elemental.co.za
http://www.wapit.co.za
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