On Friday 27 April 2001 22:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > 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:
>
> What books are you reading?
None right now (manual and online articles only - and the mailing list of
course), but I plan to look for a good advanced one soon.
> > IO 340 pages function references (copied from the manual) [2]
>
> That is wrong. Leon havent copied 340 pages from the manual. I should
> know this myself because I have finished the translation into German.
Ok, I guess you're right. sorry. What I wanted to express is that the
same information is in the online manual.
> > [2]: completely uses - the online manual is much quicker to search
> > and much more up to date (the book only covers PHP3)
>
> This is not true. Leon has written his second edition. This edition
> contains PHP 4 also.
Ah, ok (that's why I wrote "perhaps unless there's a second edition" at
the beginning). I own the first edition and described that.
> Please read books more carefully and don't pester this mailing list
> with your nonsense comments. I mean that book with a foreword by Andi
> Gutmans.
Well, you just said "Core PHP Programming" and I described that book. But
you're right in that I know nothing about the second edition.
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