Re: [PHP] php books

2012-04-10 Thread Govinda
Revisiting said dead horse, it's interesting there is no clear consensus of opinion about what is the best book to use to learn php. Generally, you get several people chiming in talking about the website. Now the website is the bomb indeed, BUT IT'S NOT A BOUND BOOK! So that's a terrific

Re: [PHP] php books

2012-04-10 Thread Kirk Bailey
A good tip, thank you. The php cookbook just arrived today, and this weekend I will be doing some cooking. On 4/10/2012 4:22 PM, Govinda wrote: Revisiting said dead horse, it's interesting there is no clear consensus of opinion about what is the best book to use to learn php. Generally, you

Re: [PHP] php books

2012-04-08 Thread Jason Pruim
On Apr 8, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Kirk Bailey kbai...@howlermonkey.net wrote: Revisiting said dead horse, it's interesting there is no clear consensus of opinion about what is the best book to use to learn php. Generally, you get several people chiming in talking about the website. Now the

Re: [PHP] php books

2012-04-08 Thread Jason Pruim
On Apr 8, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Jason Pruim li...@pruimphotography.com wrote: On Apr 8, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Kirk Bailey kbai...@howlermonkey.net wrote: Revisiting said dead horse, it's interesting there is no clear consensus of opinion about what is the best book to use to learn php.

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

2007-08-13 Thread tedd
At 8:52 PM -0500 8/12/07, Jay Blanchard wrote: Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) 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 all have our preferences for what we call best practices

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

2007-08-13 Thread tedd
At 8:06 PM -0700 8/12/07, Janet Valade wrote: Jay Blanchard wrote: If there was a best practices book would you buy it? I would buy it. But, I buy tons of books. Janet Same here. In college, if I didn't have time to read something I Xeroxed it -- now I just buy the book. :-) Cheers,

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

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sun, August 12, 2007 8:52 pm, Jay Blanchard wrote: Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) 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 all have our preferences for what we call best

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

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 20:52 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) 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 all have our preferences for what we call

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

2007-08-12 Thread Larry Garfield
The vast majority of my work these days is done using the Drupal CMS, which has its own coding standards and best practices and conventions that are (IMO) pretty darned good. I've adopted most of it in my non-Drupal work, too, for simplicity. So um, maybe, but I probably wouldn't jump at it

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

2007-08-12 Thread Janet Valade
Jay Blanchard wrote: Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) 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 all have our preferences for what we call best practices and it seems at this

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

2007-08-12 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 20:52 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: If there was a best practices book would you buy it? (I am showing complete disregard for the thread on copyright infringement v. theft.) Or do you rely on other sources like this list, articles, etc to derive your own set of practices?

Re: [PHP] PHp Books

2004-02-11 Thread Stuart
Rajani Anand Iyer wrote: Can someone recommend some good books on PHP Advanced topics. http://php.net/books -- Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP Books

2003-03-12 Thread Petre Agenbag
Hi Chris The first book, Teach Yourself PHP and MySQL in 24 Hrs: I got that one myself, but it tends to gather dust nowadays... It was very useful in the beginning with learning the basix syntax etc, but I quickly outgrew it, and rarely use it at all, not even for reference. I got the book

Re: [PHP] PHP Books

2003-03-12 Thread Chris Hewitt
Petre Agenbag wrote: There is also a new book by Rasmus Lerdorf and it's cheaper than the book I mention, unfortunately I don't have insight into that book, and what would the guy that wrote PHP know about it anyway heh? ;p Its Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf and Kevin Tatroe, O'Reilly, March

Re: [PHP] PHP Books

2003-03-12 Thread Chris Blake
Thanks for the reply...I`ll be getting the one by Luke Flemming PHP MySQL Late nights, here we come !! On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 14:25, Chris Hewitt wrote: Petre Agenbag wrote: There is also a new book by Rasmus Lerdorf and it's cheaper than the book I mention, unfortunately I don't

Re: [PHP] PHP Books

2003-03-12 Thread John Nichel
I wasn't too impressed with the PHP Bible. I haven't looked at the other two, but if the Sam's book is like the others I've used, I would say that it isn't worth it. I have O'Reilly's Programming PHP book (written in part by Rasmus Lerdorf), and it's pretty good, but I find that the online

Re: [PHP] PHP Books

2003-01-20 Thread Mike Morton
As well as books there are some great PHP/MYSQL tutorials that cover all aspects that the book do in a more visual way. http://www.vtc.com - there are mysql and php tutorials there - you can view the first few tutorials online to see if that is what you are looking for. On 1/19/03 11:31 PM,

Re: [PHP] PHP Books

2003-01-19 Thread olinux
PHP Fast Easy Web Development by Julie Meloni kicked things off for me (after knowing only HTML) basically walks you through the code of common things that you would want to do with PHP. (email a submitted html form - insert/retrieve and edit data in mysql database) Read through the examples

Re: [PHP] PHP books

2002-04-05 Thread Erik Price
On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 12:12 PM, cyberskydive wrote: what are your opinions and what are some other grest books out there? grest -- is that like great and best ? ;) I think that Visual QuickPro PHP Advanced, which just came out a month or two ago, is pretty good. I learned a lot of

Re: [PHP] PHP books

2002-04-05 Thread Mikhail Avrekh
Professional PHP Programming by Castagnetto et al. (from Wrox) is pretty good IMHO. So is Web application development with PHP, by Ratschiller/Gerken. These are the ones I've used for my purposes, as well as for a PHP class that I taught a while back. On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, cyberskydive wrote: I

Re: [PHP] PHP books

2002-04-05 Thread Adam Alkins
Avrekh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cyberskydive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP books Professional PHP Programming by Castagnetto et al. (from Wrox) is pretty good IMHO. So is Web application development with PHP, by Ratschiller

RE: [PHP] PHP books

2002-04-05 Thread Kevin Stone
]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP books A great book I read is PHP and MySQL Web Development, authors Luke Welling and Laura Thomson. Its an excellent book to read if you are new to PHP and MySQL, and even if you have a good knowledge. I learnt

Re: [PHP] PHP Books

2001-07-05 Thread Roger Ramirez
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Bernie Kruger wrote: Hi, I know this may be a previously discussed topic, but I want to be sure I get the right books. I need a good book on intermediate PHP programming. I am looking to buy PHP 4 Bible, but is that the best I can get? I looked through the list on

RE: [PHP] PHP Books

2001-07-05 Thread kmurrah
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Books On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Bernie Kruger wrote: Hi, I know this may be a previously discussed topic, but I want to be sure I get the right books. I need a good book on intermediate PHP programming. I am looking to buy PHP 4 Bible

Re: [PHP] PHP Books

2001-07-05 Thread Jeff Lewis
I strongly suggest this book. I bought it about a month or two ago and learned PHP with it. it is an EXCELLENT book. Jeff www.hyrum.net www.xnull.com If database work is anywhere in your future, though, try PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson. It is an EXCELLENT

Re: [PHP] PHP Books

2001-07-05 Thread Nick Davies
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Roger Ramirez wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Bernie Kruger wrote: Hi, I know this may be a previously discussed topic, but I want to be sure I get the right books. I need a good book on intermediate PHP programming. I am looking to buy PHP 4 Bible, but is that the

RE: [PHP] PHP Books

2001-07-05 Thread Rudolf Visagie
Hallo Bernie, Ek het begin met 'Teach yourself PHP in 24 hours' en to later 'PHP Developer's Cookbook' aangeskaf van Sterling Hughes. Eg. help met die basiese en lg. het meer gevorderde 'resepte' in. Dit het goeie resensies gekry en ek geniet dit. Groetnis Rudolf Visagie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [PHP] PHP Books

2001-05-08 Thread Stampe, Lars
http://www.wrox.com/ I really found Beginning PHP from Wrox very helpful, had a hard time stopping reading it! Great useful real life examples! Lars -Original Message- From: Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 May 2001 00:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] PHP Books Hi,

Re: [PHP] PHP Books

2001-05-08 Thread eschmid+sic
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 07:58:55AM +0800, Daniel wrote: I'm just starting PHP and am looking for some books that you'd all recommend. I've used quite a few of the SAMS books before and have found them to be really good, i also have access to The PHP Dictionary which i've also found to be

RE: [PHP] PHP Books

2001-04-20 Thread Jeff Oien
Here are some recommendations: http://www.webdesigns1.com/php/books.php Jeff Oien Hello Could I get a recommendation on some good starting PHP books? Thanks -- Later Days:) Michael Clesceri ""Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when

Re: [PHP] PHP Books

2001-04-20 Thread Dddogbruce \(@home.com\)
PHP4 - written by Chris Ullman (and some others. It has 5 pictures on the front...) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]