Re: [vox-tech] book recommendation: php
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:49:30AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: snip any recommendations for php? If you can wait until July, you can ask the author of PHP himself. ;) Of course, he's also the author of O'Reilly's Programming PHP, so he might be just a BIT biased. ;) -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] book recommendation: php
I've always just used their on-line manual. It's very good. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:49 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: if i were to have just *one* book on php, what would people recommend? i'd prefer to have a book that assumes i know what a if/else do/while constructs are. i know what arrays and strings are; i just want to know how to do them with php. :) so maybe a good reference book. i've found o'reilly's html book to be precisely what i'm looking for (for html). any recommendations for php? pete ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] book recommendation: php
PHP Pocket Reference by O'Reilly. It's very concise (and cheap! -- $9.95 cover price, or $6.07 Nerdbooks.com) and explains the PHP-ism in terms of C/PERL/BASH-isms in the first twenty or thirty pages or so, and the rest is function reference. The more up-to-date reference is, of course, online. Haven't had the need for any other PHP book. -Mark On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: if i were to have just *one* book on php, what would people recommend? i'd prefer to have a book that assumes i know what a if/else do/while constructs are. i know what arrays and strings are; i just want to know how to do them with php. :) so maybe a good reference book. i've found o'reilly's html book to be precisely what i'm looking for (for html). any recommendations for php? pete ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/ PGP key available upon request. ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] book recommendation: php
wow -- that *is* a good manual. if i can get this in print so i can read it while i'm away from the computer, i'm sold! pete begin Rod Roark [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've always just used their on-line manual. It's very good. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:49 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: if i were to have just *one* book on php, what would people recommend? i'd prefer to have a book that assumes i know what a if/else do/while constructs are. i know what arrays and strings are; i just want to know how to do them with php. :) so maybe a good reference book. i've found o'reilly's html book to be precisely what i'm looking for (for html). any recommendations for php? pete ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] book recommendation: php
Check out PHP and MySQL Web Development by Welling and Thomson, published by Sams Publishing (www.samspublishing.com). -- Tim Riley Peter Jay Salzman wrote: if i were to have just *one* book on php, what would people recommend? i'd prefer to have a book that assumes i know what a if/else do/while constructs are. i know what arrays and strings are; i just want to know how to do them with php. :) so maybe a good reference book. i've found o'reilly's html book to be precisely what i'm looking for (for html). any recommendations for php? pete ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] book recommendation: php
I was about to suggest the PDF at http://www.php.net/download-docs.php, but it's 1932 pages... ;-) -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Tuesday 04 June 2002 09:03 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: wow -- that *is* a good manual. if i can get this in print so i can read it while i'm away from the computer, i'm sold! pete begin Rod Roark [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've always just used their on-line manual. It's very good. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:49 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: if i were to have just *one* book on php, what would people recommend? i'd prefer to have a book that assumes i know what a if/else do/while constructs are. i know what arrays and strings are; i just want to know how to do them with php. :) so maybe a good reference book. i've found o'reilly's html book to be precisely what i'm looking for (for html). any recommendations for php? pete ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] book recommendation: php
I second Rod's opinion. Of the two PHP books I've tried (Professional PHP by Wrox and the PHP Blackbook) I've found the content to jump from basic programming to not-very-helpful-yet-complecated examples. I started mostly with the manual, and I still use it every day. The only downside of the manual is that if you don't know it exists, you don't know to go looking for it, and you might find it easier in a good in a nutshell style book ... Here's an example. I spent way more time than I needed to writing a string parsing routine that stipped ascii returns and replaced them with br (\n to br). After struggling with it not quite doing what I wanted, I found that php has a function that does just that. So it all depends on how you work/search. Dave On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Rod Roark wrote: I've always just used their on-line manual. It's very good. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:49 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: if i were to have just *one* book on php, what would people recommend? i'd prefer to have a book that assumes i know what a if/else do/while constructs are. i know what arrays and strings are; i just want to know how to do them with php. :) so maybe a good reference book. i've found o'reilly's html book to be precisely what i'm looking for (for html). any recommendations for php? pete ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
