RE: [PHP] Good PHP Books (topic wandering)

2003-06-17 Thread Wim Paulussen
n: Joel Rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:57 AM Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books (topic wandering) > Some of the O'Reilly books that I thought were > not perfect: > - All books about Perl. Now that we have nice > c-like

Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books (topic wandering)

2003-06-17 Thread Joel Rees
> Some of the O'Reilly books that I thought were > not perfect: > - All books about Perl. Now that we have nice > c-like script languages like PHP, Python and > Javascript who still wants to study the mess > that Perl is? Heh. PHP, Python, Javascript? It's all perl to me. ;-) The O'Reilly

Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-17 Thread Jaap van Ganswijk
At 2003-06-17 01:16 -0500, John Nichel wrote: >Jaap van Ganswijk wrote: > >>Some of the O'Reilly books that I thought were >>not perfect: >>- All books about Perl. Now that we have nice >> c-like script languages like PHP, Python and >> Javascript who still wants to study the mess >> that Perl i

Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread John Nichel
Jaap van Ganswijk wrote: Some of the O'Reilly books that I thought were not perfect: - All books about Perl. Now that we have nice c-like script languages like PHP, Python and Javascript who still wants to study the mess that Perl is? The O'Reilly Perl books are considered to be like Perl

Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread Jaap van Ganswijk
At 2003-06-16 10:24 -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote: >I have been asked to teach an introduction course on PHP/MySQL at my local >College. > >I am looking for a good beginner book for the course. Like most people I >learned PHP from php.net and online tutorials. But I need a book for the >course. > >I

Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread Joel Rees
> Thanks for your input. > > Yes I am already planning on using the book for extra information for the > course, knowing I won't cover all the chapters in the book in such a short > time. I won't get into things like GD(images) or things like creating PDF > files dynamically. I plan to in the fut

Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread Brad Dameron
Mark, An exceptional book and one I sleep with next to my bed is the PHP Bible 2nd Edition from Tim Converse and Joyce Park. This edition is published September 2002 and covers PHP 4.2. However it is 1000 pages. But it covers PHP in a simple explanatory way and will be a great resource. Hope this

Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread Mark McCulligh
I have looked "Programming PHP" and "Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL' both from O'Reilly. Both look good, but a little out of date. Mark. -- "John Nichel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > There's Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf and Kevin Tatroe (O'Reilly

Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread John Nichel
There's Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf and Kevin Tatroe (O'Reilly). It's the only one I have, and have been satisified with it. I was already a year or so into php when I got it, and use it mainly as a reference, so I don't know how good it is for beginners. Mark McCulligh wrote: Hi Other P

Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread Mark McCulligh
t; From: Mark McCulligh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] Good PHP Books > > Hi Other PHP Users, > > I have been asked to teach an introduction course on PHP/MySQL at my > local > College. > > I am

RE: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread Mike Brum
ything from the beginning - even if the course doesn't cover every chapter. Just my $.02 -Mike -Original Message- From: Mark McCulligh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Good PHP Books Hi Other PHP Users, I have been

RE: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread Dan Joseph
d fit your needs. -Dan Joseph > -Original Message- > From: Mark McCulligh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] Good PHP Books > > > Hi Other PHP Users, > > I have been asked to teach an intr

[PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread Mark McCulligh
Hi Other PHP Users, I have been asked to teach an introduction course on PHP/MySQL at my local College. I am looking for a good beginner book for the course. Like most people I learned PHP from php.net and online tutorials. But I need a book for the course. I am looking for a book that is not to