Re: books on PHP, Perl, HTML, etc

[Brian]

Dennis Gearon said:

Any  recommendations on books for the above subjects? I -do- know where
to buy them through, though. http://www.addall.com/  will find the
cheapest books on the web.

Perl:

(O'reilly books)

Learning Perl
Programming Perl
Perl Cookbook

(in that order; read them all. if you have programming experience, skip 
Learning Perl)



PHP:

(Wrox book)

Professional PHP Programming


HTML:

I'm not sure if HTML should fall in the same category (never mind that it's 
not a programming language; it has no form of iteration). HTML is going to 
be a prerequisite for learning PHP, probably (unless you want to do system 
programming with PHP -- but why? :-)).


You can pick HTML up from looking at source pretty easily. I wouldn't try 
to learn HTML from http://www.w3.org/, but the W3 validator is almost 
certainly what you will want to use to check your HTML for errors. Don't 
fall into the trap that a lot of authors fall into.


Brian
  

Re: books on PHP, Perl, HTML, etc

[Steve Lamb]

Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 2:33:44 PM, Dennis wrote:
 Any  recommendations on books for the above subjects? I -do- know where
 to buy them through, though. http://www.addall.com/  will find the
 cheapest books on the web.

O'Reilly, O'Reilly, O'Reilly.  They are the best reference books for those
subjects, hands down.  I've found my copies of Programming Perl indispensable.
I've perused through Advanced Perl Programming and Mastering Algorithms with
Perl but haven't had much need for them.  I have my hands on an older edition
of HTML: The Definitive Guide and it has proven quite useful.  So much so that
I've got an order in for a copy of the recent edition at work and am thinking
of a copy for home as well.  Perl in a Nutshell is another good Perl reference
book.  Based on my experience with those I've also decided to blind order
Javascript: The Definitive Guide for work and their PHP reference for home for
when I do start dabbling in PHP.



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