Must have books on PHP?

[Vincent Delporte]

Hello

Does someone know of a list of the top ten books on PHP as of 2006?

I browsed the archives, but there are lot of threads on the subject,
but not necessarily up to date.

Thank you.

[Erwin Moller]

Re: Must have books on PHP?

Vincent Delporte wrote:

Hello
>
Does someone know of a list of the top ten books on PHP as of 2006?
>
I browsed the archives, but there are lot of threads on the subject,
but not necessarily up to date.
>
Thank you.

Hi Vincent,

According to me buying IT-technical books is very simple: Find the latest
release of O'Reilly on the subject.
They NEVER disappointed me, and I have a lot of them. :-)

https://www.oreilly.com

just my 2 cents.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Chung Leong]

Re: Must have books on PHP?


Vincent Delporte wrote:

Hello
>
Does someone know of a list of the top ten books on PHP as of 2006?
>
I browsed the archives, but there are lot of threads on the subject,
but not necessarily up to date.
>
Thank you.

The most useful PHP book for me was about PECL. The "Camel" book does a
very good job explaining Perl-style regular expression. It's worth
paying for the whole book just for those chapters.

O'Reilly's Dynamic HTML reference is a must-have. It almost never
leaves my desk.

It's hard to go wrong with O'Reilly. Their Apache book was kind of
crummy though.

[Vincent Delporte]

Re: Must have books on PHP?

On 28 Jul 2006 09:26:00 -0700, "Chung Leong"
<chernyshevsky@ hotmail.comwrot e:

>It's hard to go wrong with O'Reilly. Their Apache book was kind of
>crummy though.

Thanks guys.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Re: Must have books on PHP?

Vincent Delporte wrote:

Does someone know of a list of the top ten books on PHP as of 2006?
>
I browsed the archives, but there are lot of threads on the subject,
but not necessarily up to date.

FWIW, <news:112292107 8.826910.103310 @g43g2000cwa.go oglegroups.com>
( http://groups.google.com/group/comp....55713f1345dff1 )

--
<?php echo 'Just another PHP saint'; ?>
Email: rrjanbiah-at-Y!com Blog: http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.com/

[Vincent Delporte]

Re: Must have books on PHP?

On 28 Jul 2006 19:36:27 -0700, "R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah"
<ng4rrjanbiah@r ediffmail.comwr ote:

FWIW, <news:112292107 8.826910.103310 @g43g2000cwa.go oglegroups.com>
>( http://groups.google.com/group/comp....55713f1345dff1 )

Thx!

[Carl Vondrick]

Re: Must have books on PHP?

I browsed the archives, but there are lot of threads on the subject,

but not necessarily up to date.

Whatever you do, make sure you buy a PHP 5 book. PHP 4 is vastly old
and out-dated. Once people realize that cPanel and phpBB aren't up to
par, PHP 5 will become mainstream.

[Vincent Delporte]

Re: Must have books on PHP?

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:51:38 GMT, Carl Vondrick <usenet@carlsof t.net>
wrote:

>Whatever you do, make sure you buy a PHP 5 book. PHP 4 is vastly old
>and out-dated. Once people realize that cPanel and phpBB aren't up to
>par, PHP 5 will become mainstream.

Thx for the tip.

" PHP5 Power Programming" from Prentice Hall

"Learning PHP 5" from O'Reilly

[axlq]

Re: Must have books on PHP?

In article <eyZyg.183646$F _3.123922@newss vr29.news.prodi gy.net>,
Carl Vondrick <usenet@carlsof t.netwrote:

>I browsed the archives, but there are lot of threads on the subject,
>but not necessarily up to date.

>
>Whatever you do, make sure you buy a PHP 5 book. PHP 4 is vastly old
>and out-dated.

PHP 5 is also vastly under-deployed. If your job is to develop
web sites to be hosted on an ISPs server, it is far better to use
PHP 4, because the features of PHP 5 are almost guaranteed to be
UNavailable on most servers, unless you have your own server on a
colocation service.

-A

[axlq]

Re: Must have books on PHP?

In article <hf9kc2ptm69bio u5ipb3d6mcad2mo 0p34m@4ax.com>,
Vincent Delporte <justask@acme.c omwrote:

>Does someone know of a list of the top ten books on PHP as of 2006?

The only PHP "book" I've ever needed is the online documentation at

http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php

-A

[Carl Vondrick]

Re: Must have books on PHP?

axlq wrote:

PHP 5 is also vastly under-deployed. If your job is to develop
web sites to be hosted on an ISPs server, it is far better to use
PHP 4, because the features of PHP 5 are almost guaranteed to be
UNavailable on most servers, unless you have your own server on a
colocation service.

ISP hosting? Never! :-)

The future is in PHP5. If you are going to invest time in learning, you
would hope that you could use it later down the line! There are plenty
of hosts out there that provide PHP5 and decided that not using a
2-year-old-almost-3-year-old language is simply a bad idea. I'm
currently very happy with NetworkRedux (http://www.networkredux.com/).
The issue with PHP not be stable doesn't make sense, and it's obvious
that the PHP developers aren't going to make PHP5 more stable (probably
because it's already stable?).

I agree, though, if you aren't interested in learning the language and
just want to implement something, PHP4 is the quick solution.

The key differences with PHP 4 and PHP 5 are probably things that won't
concern a new comer (real OOP, PDO, Exceptions, SPL) for a while. But,
it still would probably be wise to invest in a PHP5 book, because the
basic chapters would still apply to 4.

Carl

[ybakos]

Re: Must have books on PHP?


Hi Vincent, you might really like the Sitepoint books by Fuecks, the
"Visual PHP 5" book is very good if you like em cookbook-style, and
Wrox Pro PHP5 is a love/hate thing -- lots of errors, but good ideas
and concepts.

Cheers,
Yong

Vincent Delporte wrote:

Hello
>
Does someone know of a list of the top ten books on PHP as of 2006?
>
I browsed the archives, but there are lot of threads on the subject,
but not necessarily up to date.
>
Thank you.

[Vincent Delporte]

Re: Must have books on PHP?

On 31 Jul 2006 14:58:42 -0700, "ybakos" <spam@humanorie nted.com>
wrote:

>Hi Vincent, you might really like the Sitepoint books by Fuecks, the
>"Visual PHP 5" book is very good if you like em cookbook-style, and
>Wrox Pro PHP5 is a love/hate thing -- lots of errors, but good ideas
>and concepts.

Thx, I'll check them out too.