PHP Books

[ddg_linux]

Hello all,
Just wondering if you more experienced programmers out there could
direct me to some
books regarding PHP. I am looking for a book that has a walk through
project that will
allow me to build my php skills as I read through the book.

Thanks a lot for your information in advance.

Cheers

[Jeff]

Re: PHP Books

ddg_linux wrote:

Hello all,
Just wondering if you more experienced programmers out there could
direct me to some
books regarding PHP. I am looking for a book that has a walk through
project that will
allow me to build my php skills as I read through the book.

I have to ask whether you need php skills, or development experience.
The language reference online is pretty good and is mostly all you need
to learn the language.

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

But that really doesn't teach you good skills (you'll learn good bits
and pieces), and I'm not sure there is a book that does.

There's a lot of books that work through example applications. But
the way a more mature developer writes is going to be different than a
beginner. You'll be thinking more and more about writing reusable code
and code that is easily maintainable, that will lead you to classes and
objects and better functions. Perhaps not a concept to undertake if you
are starting out.

Not a bad idea to turn on all error checking for a start.

I'm not sure what you need, just go to a good bookstore and pull down
a stack of PHP books and see which ones speak to you. Otherwise pick it
up online by watching what others do and reading the docs and examples.

>
Thanks a lot for your information in advance.
>
Cheers

[fred]

Re: PHP Books

On Aug 25, 2:23 am, Michael Vilain <vil...@NOspamc op.netwrote:

We all learn differently. I've been coding since the 1980's but find
using web pages to learn a language doesn't work for me. I like reading
a book and holding it in my hands. To look up stuff, the web is fine.

I agree. You look up something on the web, and you're likely to get a
lot of conflicting and out of date information.

I've seen this web argument before, but the fact of the matter is that
it'll save hours of time to have a good book over hunting around on
the net trying to find something in particular. Easily worth the
price of most books.

I've got the O'Reilly "PHP and MySQL" book, and also "PHP Hacks." I
used the former a lot when I first got started, and the latter just
gives a lot of good ideas.

I did find that the PHP site itself, if you search in the online
documentation, is a great source of information and taught me a lot of
things I didn't see in the books. Having come from a OOP background,
for example, I implemented a bunch of stuff to do iterators before
finding that PHP has built in iterators for arrays. Who knew? Not
me. Sometimes I just browse the functions and find things that aren't
often discussed but really useful.

[ElPistolero]

Re: PHP Books

Michael Vilain wrote:
....

I bought a book on PHP and MySQL programming but found it to be to thin
on reference. So I don't use it much. The MySQL Reference Manual is a
much used volume.

I am much similar in my tastes. I have been programming since the
1960's, so learning analytical and procedural skills is not an issue. I
need a thorough reference book and a pile of *working* examples (not
"snippets") . Don't tell me something *can* be done, show me one that
functions on my machine, then let me hit the books for the details and
nuances.


--
Fui et vidi experiri.
=DSM=

[salihriza]

Re: PHP Books

https://www.pdfchm.com

here you can find lots of php books. lots off :D

you may find it difficult to download..

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: PHP Books

Hello,

on 08/24/2008 07:28 AM ddg_linux said the following:

Hello all,
Just wondering if you more experienced programmers out there could
direct me to some
books regarding PHP. I am looking for a book that has a walk through
project that will
allow me to build my php skills as I read through the book.

Here you may find reviews of several PHP books:

http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/latest/latest.html

--

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

Find and post PHP jobs

http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/

PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP

http://www.phpclasses.org/

[Michael Kumm]

Re: PHP Books

On 2008-08-24 06:28:09 -0400, ddg_linux <dgeorge29ca@gm ail.comsaid:

Hello all,
Just wondering if you more experienced programmers out there could
direct me to some
books regarding PHP. I am looking for a book that has a walk through
project that will
allow me to build my php skills as I read through the book.
>
Thanks a lot for your information in advance.
>
Cheers

I think "PHP and MySQL Web Development" is still the classic - with a
few walk throughs.
amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Development-Developers-Library/dp/0672329166/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220218309&sr=8-4