Good Learning Books?

[Dan]

I am looking for two good books: a php4 one and a php4 with db one. I
see that "Beginning PHP4" and "Beginning PHP4 Databases" are a series
but "Beginning PHP4" got a bad review on amazon regarding outdated code.
Looking for suggestions...
TIA,
Dan

[kingofkolt]

Re: Good Learning Books?

"Dan" <dan@nospam.com > wrote in message
news:7ULRc.1$s8 1.14501@news.us west.net...[color=blue]
> I am looking for two good books: a php4 one and a php4 with db one. I
> see that "Beginning PHP4" and "Beginning PHP4 Databases" are a series
> but "Beginning PHP4" got a bad review on amazon regarding outdated code.
> Looking for suggestions...
> TIA,
> Dan[/color]

I got started on Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, by Matt Zandstra. For
MySQL, I read Teach Yourself MySQL in 24 Hours, by Julie C. Meloni. Those
are both put out by Sams Publishing and you can buy them from
samspublishing. com (or eBay... lol).

- JP

[Benny Hill]

Re: Good Learning Books?

On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 09:29:13 -0500, Dan wrote:
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> I am looking for two good books: a php4 one and a php4 with db one. I
> see that "Beginning PHP4" and "Beginning PHP4 Databases" are a series
> but "Beginning PHP4" got a bad review on amazon regarding outdated code.
> Looking for suggestions...
> TIA,
> Dan[/color]

I have no recommendations for book titles, only a good place to buy
technical books: www.bookpool.com

[Maxim Vexler]

Re: Good Learning Books?

Dan wrote:[color=blue]
> I am looking for two good books: a php4 one and a php4 with db one. I
> see that "Beginning PHP4" and "Beginning PHP4 Databases" are a series
> but "Beginning PHP4" got a bad review on amazon regarding outdated code.
> Looking for suggestions...
> TIA,
> Dan[/color]

from the zend :

http://zend.com/zend/art/mistake1.php

Where to get the information

Luckily there is a lot of information out there on how to program PHP,
some of the best are:

* Zend.com: Obviously. You're reading this article, right??
* Professional PHP: One of the best overall books on PHP, good for
non-programmers and programmers alike.
* Web Application Development with PHP: A great book teaching both
the concepts in Web development as well as some of PHP's more advanced
features. Contains the official Zend API documentation.
* The PHP Developer's Cookbook: A solutions oriented book covering
the common problems that PHP developers encounter (Coming out November
2000, written by myself with Andrei Zmievski).

i personally can tell you I'm now reading "Web Application Development
with PHP" though it's quite obsolete by now (talks about php4) it's a
excellent book for a php beginner, you do need some programing
background for feeling comfortable with it but a very basic one: know
the syntax of a C program learn basic SQL syntax and you'll be ok,
guaranteed. also after i finish this one i plan to go read "The PHP
Developer's Cookbook" because i hared it's a excellent book also.

happy reading,
maxim v.

[Data Goob]

Re: Good Learning Books?

Dan wrote:[color=blue]
> I am looking for two good books: a php4 one and a php4 with db one. I
> see that "Beginning PHP4" and "Beginning PHP4 Databases" are a series
> but "Beginning PHP4" got a bad review on amazon regarding outdated code.
> Looking for suggestions...
> TIA,
> Dan[/color]

Check out http://www.sitepoint.com . They have a lot of great books with
excellent material.

[Larry Jaques]

Re: Good Learning Books?

On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 19:36:20 -0400, Data Goob <datagoob@hotma il.com>
calmly ranted:
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>Dan wrote:[color=green]
>> I am looking for two good books: a php4 one and a php4 with db one. I
>> see that "Beginning PHP4" and "Beginning PHP4 Databases" are a series
>> but "Beginning PHP4" got a bad review on amazon regarding outdated code.
>> Looking for suggestions...
>> TIA,
>> Dan[/color]
>
>Check out http://www.sitepoint.com . They have a lot of great books with
>excellent material.[/color]

My sister ordered "MySQL Cookbook" and one of Meyers' CSS
books for my birthday. I'm working through Julie Meloni's
/ Sams "Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL, and Apache" now.


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