[thelist] PHP learning tools
Burhan Khalid
thelist at meidomus.com
Tue Jul 27 01:57:27 CDT 2004
Joel D Canfield wrote:
> Decided to get serious about PHP. Looking for a Palm version of the PHP
> docs, and one or two excellent books on PHP (with or without MySQL)
I've owned two PHP books -- Secure PHP Development[1] and the famous PHP
and MySQL Web Development Second Edition[2] (its now got a third edition
in the works).
I was already familiar with PHP before I purchased these books, so I was
really looking for an in-depth reference. Unfortunately, I didn't find
such a thing in either of them. The PHP and MySQL Web Development is
good if you are a novice/intermediate programmer and would like to learn
how to create different types of PHP applications (for example, mailing
list managers, forums, etc.) The book really tries to squeeze a lot in
there. I found the best part of the book to be the section on Web
Services and the Appendix (which has guides on how to setup a PHP dev.
environment).
The Secure PHP Development is a good book if you want hints on how to
use classes and reuse your code. Although the readability of the book is
hampered by the long pages of code, its a good way to see how classes
can be used to ease development. This was one of the few books that had
examples of command line php applications (such as a BIND domain
manager) ... quite handy. It even has a section regarding Best
Practices in PHP.
> Can't find the PDBPRC of the manual, though php.net says it exists.
> Searched thelist back six months and don't see any definitive statements
> re: good general books on PHP.
You can download the .pdb format of the php manual from memoware.com[3]
[1] http://tinyurl.com/6vtb3
[2] http://tinyurl.com/4y7qa
[3] http://tinyurl.com/3qv2z
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