For learning PHP, I liked "PHP Essentials" by Julie Meloni.
-Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Lott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] Books on PHP > > > > I am new to PHP and was wondering if anyone can point me the right > > direction > > with > > PHP urls and books > > In the past few months I have received nearly all of the PHP > books that have > been written (I wanted to evaluate possible books for some classes) and I > think all of the entry-level/beginner/learn the language kind of > books. PHP > and MySQL Web Development is a great book, and provides a good > resource for > both PHP and MySQL in one text. However, I think its sections on actually > learning PHP are a bit on the short side, assuming more knowledge and > self-motivation than a lot of people (ok, beginning students) > might have. I > highly recommend it, but I would add to it the PHP Bible (which > you already > have) and, if that isn't enough, the PHP books from Wrox. PHP4: A > Beginner's > Guide is actually pretty good and might have been (had I received it in > time) the best choice for a class text, since it is structured and written > that way. > > You really can't go wrong with any of those books, a good project to keep > yourself interested, and a local copy of the documentation. > > c > -- > Chris Lott > http://www.chrislott.org/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
