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  • bAmrish@gmail.com

    PHP book

    Hi guyz,
    I am new to PHP and I am considering buying a PHP book. Can you suggest
    me a book to start with which can be appropriate for PHP begniers.

    I have a pretty good programing experinence in other language.

    Thanks in advance,
    Amrish

  • Michal Stankoviansky

    #2
    Re: PHP book

    Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional (Paperback)
    by W. J. Gilmore / APress


    or

    PHP and MySQL Web Development (3rd Edition)
    by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson / Sams



    --
    Michal

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    • JDS

      #3
      Re: PHP book

      On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 06:11:36 -0700, Michal Stankoviansky wrote:
      [color=blue]
      > PHP and MySQL Web Development (3rd Edition)
      > by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson / Sams
      > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672326728/[/color]

      Seconded on this choice. I use it in my class.

      However, don't underestimate the value of the PHP.net website.
      *Everything* you ever need to know about PHP is covered there. Plus you
      can cut-n-paste code -- try that with a book.

      later...

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      JDS | jeffrey@example .invalid
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      • R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah

        #4
        |FAQ| Resources to learn PHP (Was Re: PHP book)

        Q: What are the resources to learn PHP?

        A: PHP.net (http://www.php.net/), the official homepage of has almost
        everything--downloadable binary, documents, etc.

        The online function reference can be accessed like
        http://www.php.net/<function name>, for example
        http://www.php.net/strlen . Apart from the examples and usage
        references, the documentation also has high quality user contributed
        notes that are related to the function (this is also been edited by PHP
        maintainers for quality). Sometimes, the user contributed notes may
        have very valid information that might not be covered in the official
        documentation; so one must read the user contributed notes always.

        Some books of interest:
        1. PHP 5 Power Programming, by Andi Gutmans, Stig Sæther Bakken, and
        Derick Rethans. ISBN 0-13-147149-X 2005
        Level: Advanced
        Available Free in PDF from
        <http://www.phptr.com/promotions/promotion.asp?p romo=1484&redir =1&rl=1>,
        9.6MB
        2. Advanced PHP Programming, by George Schlossnagle. ISBN 0672325616
        Level: Advanced. PHP 5
        Not free <http://froogle.google. com/froogle?q=ISBN+ 0672325616>
        3. Practical PHP Programming, by Paul Hudson
        Level: Beginner to Advanced. Covers PHP 4.
        Available online. (Refer the TOS) <http://www.hudzilla.or g/phpbook/>

        Blogs:
        Reader Tim Van Wassenhove maintains PHP/technical blogmarks from where
        one can find many useful informations:


        Newsgroups:
        news:comp.lang. php (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/)
        news:php.* (Nowadays, can't access via Google Groups)

        DMoz listing:


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        @todo Add more resources, if any

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