On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:23, Nicholas Rogers wrote: > Don, > > I can recommend 2 excellent books: > > PHP in 10 Minutes by SAMS publishing. > Succinct, fast and $cheap. It will answer most of your fundamental > PHP questions with minimum fuss. > > 2. PHP and MyQL Web Development, Welling & Thomson, 3rd Edition, > Developers Library > This is the best tutorial style text that guides you through the maze > of material on PHP and MySQL. If you really want to get your head > around PHP and MySQL integration, take the time to read it. To which I can add: PHP Power Programming by Andi Gutmans, Stig Saether Bakken, and Derik Rethans.
It's in the Christchurch Public Library. Item Number C31072740. It's a bit of a tome, so I won't be returning it until the due date which is 23/11/06. Actually there are _many_ open-source offerings which you could incorporate into your project to do what you want. The IPCop distribution uses the ipacc package. I have found it to be useful. http://gara.opennet.ru/ipacc/ipacc-0.6.tar.gz There is a help.txt in the directory which you might find useful. It's in Russian, but the command sequences are there. There is some doco at: http://www.knossos.net.nz/ipacc/ipacc1.html btw. imho You would be _much_ better off learning Ruby. It knocks all the P... languages into a cocked has as far as expressiveness and ease of use is concerned. There is a huge library of methods and finished applications available. The first edition of the book is on the Web at:- http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ and you can buy ( $25.00 US ) a pdf file of the second - much improved - second edition at: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html http://www.ruby-lang.org/ -- CS
