[PHP] Re: PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-15 Thread David Powers
Jay Blanchard wrote: If there was a best practices book would you buy it? I write books on PHP aimed at the beginner/intermediate level, and have a considerable collection of PHP books written by others. Two relatively recent books that struck me as being important are Pro PHP Security by

[PHP] Re: PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-15 Thread Man-wai Chang To Die
We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome that seems to be missing from the group...a best practices book. We PHP, being server-side, is not difficult. I think the client-side stuff deserves some books (DOM, Javascript, CSS, XHTML, XML, ) if you want to save

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-15 Thread jekillen
On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:28 AM, David Powers wrote: Jay Blanchard wrote: If there was a best practices book would you buy it? I write books on PHP aimed at the beginner/intermediate level, and have a considerable collection of PHP books written by others. Two relatively recent books that

[PHP] Re: PHp Books

2004-02-11 Thread memoimyself
Hello Rajani, On 10 Feb 2004 at 12:36, Rajani Anand Iyer wrote: Can someone recommend some good books on PHP Advanced topics. Well, I can advise you on what not to buy, which should help, too. Don't spend your money on Professional PHP4 (Argerich, Choi, Coggeshall, Egervari, Geisler, Greant,

[PHP] Re: PHp Books

2004-02-11 Thread rush
Rajani Anand Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Can someone recommend some good books on PHP Advanced topics. here is my (amazon) list http://www.templatetamer.org/index.php?RecommendedBooks rush -- http://www.templatetamer.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Books

2003-03-13 Thread David T-G
Hi, all -- ...and then rotsky said... % ... % 'PHP Developer's Cookbook' - Sterling Hughes with contributions by Andrei % Zmievski (Sams). Still playing with this one. Definitely not for beginners % as it assumes (IMHO) a fairly well-developed familiarity with PHP concepts % and procedures and

[PHP] Re: PHP Books

2003-03-12 Thread rotsky
Don't know any of those but the books I have experience with so far (as a newbie with less than 2 weeks' PHP experience and next-to-no programming experience generally): 'Programming PHP' - Rasmus Lerdorf Kevin Tatroe (O'Reilly) - straight from the horse's mouth, as it were. Excellent book which

[PHP] Re: PHP Books

2003-03-12 Thread David Eisenhart
I've invested quite heavily in php books, the 2 most useful by a long way are: 1) Programming PHP, O'Reilly, Rasmus Lerdorf Kevin Tatroe - a truly superb book; its concise, well written and just seems to hit the mark. A must for any aspiring php programmer! 2) PHP Functions, Essential Reference,