php-general Digest 8 Apr 2011 14:53:03 -0000 Issue 7263
Topics (messages 312306 through 312310):
Re: the best 1 book for php
312306 by: sono-io.fannullone.us
312308 by: Donovan Brooke
312309 by: Paul M Foster
Re: Ranges for case statement and a WTF moment.
312307 by: David Harkness
Surge 2011 CFP Deadline Extended
312310 by: Katherine Jeschke
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On Apr 7, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Marc Guay wrote:
> session_start(); // Genesis
>
> // do stuff
>
> session_destroy(); // Revelation
Now THAT'S clever! =:)
I'm half way though "Beginning PHP 5.3" by Matt Doyle and I like it a
lot. Very readable, and up-to-date.
Marc
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Kirk Bailey wrote:
If I only had 1 book on php, what would it be?
I have to disagree with the php.net 'docs' being the best "book".
Though most of us will have a php.net tab open in your browser every
time we write code, it's not the same learning that comes with a good
book IMO. Reading a book can give a more robust understanding to a
language, perhaps especially when starting out. You get to listen in on
the author's perceptions of tools, theories of practice, etc.. which can
help with concepts, reasoning, and understanding etc..
Perhaps you start to get a similar type of learning with a good talk
list combined with php.net however... perhaps with a bit of spam. ;-)
Anyway, someone mentioned Larry Ullman's books and I'd have to second
that suggestion.
Donovan
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D Brooke
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On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 02:54:45PM -0500, Donovan Brooke wrote:
> Kirk Bailey wrote:
> >If I only had 1 book on php, what would it be?
>
>
> I have to disagree with the php.net 'docs' being the best "book".
>
> Though most of us will have a php.net tab open in your browser every
> time we write code, it's not the same learning that comes with a
> good book IMO. Reading a book can give a more robust understanding
> to a language, perhaps especially when starting out. You get to
> listen in on the author's perceptions of tools, theories of
> practice, etc.. which can help with concepts, reasoning, and
> understanding etc..
>
> Perhaps you start to get a similar type of learning with a good talk
> list combined with php.net however... perhaps with a bit of spam.
> ;-)
>
> Anyway, someone mentioned Larry Ullman's books and I'd have to
> second that suggestion.
I agree regarding php.net.
php.net is a great resource for function references. It is less of a
great resource for basic language elements and such, mainly because of
the way it's indexed. It's much harder to find a full explanation of
something like "heredocs" on the site than an explanation of, say the
"date()" function.
However, if you're trying to learn the language, a book is a better
companion than php.net. I'd recommend the O'Reilly book "Programming
PHP" by Lerdorf, Tatroe & MacIntyre. Before I discovered php.net, it was
my bible (not the one Tedd referred to).
Paul
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Paul M. Foster
http://noferblatz.com
http://quillandmouse.com
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Richard Quadling <[email protected]>wrote:
> And all this is shown when you ...
>
> php -r "print_r(array_map(function(&$token){if(is_array($token)){$token[0]
> = token_name($token[0]);} return $token;},token_get_all('<?php echo
> 10...19;')));"
>
Woah, that's a very nifty trick! I like PHP more and more each day . . . I
can *almost* overlook the $ now. :p
David
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