book recommendation for experienced programmer?

[NotGiven]

I'm an programmer experienced in other languages but have been using PHP for
about a year now. I want to take it to the next level - be the expert.

What book do you recommend help take me there? A book that would not
necesarily be a reference but a coach teaching me, presenting me with
different problems and telling me how a PHP expert would solve the problem.

Thanks.

[Jochen Buennagel]

Re: book recommendation for experienced programmer?

NotGiven wrote:[color=blue]
> What book do you recommend help take me there? A book that would not
> necesarily be a reference but a coach teaching me, presenting me with
> different problems and telling me how a PHP expert would solve the problem.[/color]

Most PHP books are either pretty basic or just a beefed up reference, so
I mostly reed non-PHP books now that really help me, like the ones
Martin Fowler writes (read "Refactorin g" and "Pattrns of Enterprise
Application Architecture"), or "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Hunt/Thomas
(highly recommended).

Of the PHP variety, I can recommend "Core PHP Programming, 3rd ed." by
Atkinson/Surasky, which is a reference but goes very deep into the usage
of various (families of) functions, gives optimizing hints etc.

The other one is the "PHP Cookbook" by Sklar/Trachtenberg, which
contains a lot of recipies for common and not-so-common problems.

Jochen

[rush]

Re: book recommendation for experienced programmer?

"NotGiven" <noname@nonegiv en.net> wrote in message
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> What book do you recommend help take me there? A book that would not
> necesarily be a reference but a coach teaching me, presenting me with
> different problems and telling me how a PHP expert would solve the[/color]
problem.

here is my book recommend list:

http://www.templatetamer.org/index.php?RecommendedBooks

rush
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