On Friday 27 April 2001 15:15, Johan Holst Nielsen wrote:
> > Hey everyone...
> >
> > I've been programming in perl for about 3 years now, i have installed
> > php and have been working on it for about three weeks. I started by
> Try "Core PHP Programmning", it's have a lot of good stuff!
That book is definitely the wrong choice for someone with 3 years perl
experience (perhaps unless there's a second edition). The copy I
unfortunately bought is built somehow like that:
5 pages useful intro
45 pages explaining basic language contructs [1]
4 pages explaining classes
11 pages giving a (small) overview of using print(), getting data from
forms, file upoads, env-vars, cookies, include/require and file IO
340 pages function references (copied from the manual) [2]
After that comes the somehow useful part - overviews of common task areas
- using databases, string munging, ...
But that's only quick overviews, and some of the topics are just about
generic (language independent) stuff, e.g. the description of basic
sorting algorithms (the stuff you do *not* want to use in PHP :)
Well, it gets one plus point because it includes an ASCII chart :)
So: forget about that book. If at all, you'll quickly glance over it and
then let it collect dust forever.
[1]: Perl is very similar in this area. Just looking through the manual
will be better (and quicker) than reading that book section
[2]: completely uses - the online manual is much quicker to search and
much more up to date (the book only covers PHP3)
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