Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-18 Thread franzemmanuel
Robert Cummings a écrit : On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:47 +, Richard Heyes wrote: Floppies hold 1.4 megs now? Mine don't and they're even dual-sided. :( What are Floppies? Is it a reference to a particular male problem? If so, then I want to know what dual sided means? Cheers, Rob. and me

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-17 Thread Lupus Michaelis
Daniel Brown a écrit : You'd be surprised. The For Dummies series is one of the best-selling franchises in mainstream publishing history. Best-selling are not a proof of quality. -- Mickaël Wolff aka Lupus Michaelis http://lupusmic.org -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-17 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:47 +, Richard Heyes wrote: Floppies hold 1.4 megs now? Mine don't and they're even dual-sided. :( What are Floppies? Is it a reference to a particular male problem? If so, then I want to know what dual sided means? Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-17 Thread David Robley
Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:11, Jay Moore jaymo...@accu-com.com wrote: Ok. Let me back them up to these reel-to-reel tapes quick, just in case. Just be careful that you don't get the Michaelangelo or Friday The 13th viruses especially if you're converting over

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-17 Thread David Robley
Lupus Michaelis wrote: Daniel Brown a écrit : You'd be surprised. The For Dummies series is one of the best-selling franchises in mainstream publishing history. Best-selling are not a proof of quality. Viz: Windows Version xx.x Cheers -- David Robley Windows: XT emulator

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Heyes
Floppies hold 1.4 megs now? Mine don't and they're even dual-sided. :( What are Floppies? Is it a reference to a particular male problem? -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org (Updated December 5th) -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Heyes
Sounds like you need Self Esteem for Dummies. Lol. It's not a question of self-esteem, more based on the number of non-starter businesses I've attempted to start. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org (Updated December 5th) -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-17 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 13:13 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:47 +, Richard Heyes wrote: Floppies hold 1.4 megs now? Mine don't and they're even dual-sided. :( What are Floppies? Is it a reference to a particular male problem? If so, then I want to know what

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-17 Thread Nathan Rixham
Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 13:13 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:47 +, Richard Heyes wrote: Floppies hold 1.4 megs now? Mine don't and they're even dual-sided. :( What are Floppies? Is it a reference to a particular male problem? If so, then I

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-17 Thread Matty Sarro
When you really want to learn a language, I find it useful to have a book that teaches you the language, and then a book for reference. Head First PHP is a GREAT starter book, especially if you're the type whose eyes glaze over when you're presented with walls of text. Its easy to read and very

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread jordan
Ashley Sheridan a écrit : On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 16:33 -0600, jeffery harris wrote: Hi guys/gals. I'm a first time user. Does anyone know of a good php book? I tend to trust O'Reilly books a lot for all things programming, although I learnt largely with 'PHP, Apache, MySQL Web

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Richard Heyes
I learned from PHP For Dummies. The title of that book isn't doing itself any favours... :-) -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org (Updated December 5th) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:25, Richard Heyes rich...@php.net wrote: I learned from PHP For Dummies. The title of that book isn't doing itself any favours... :-) You'd be surprised. The For Dummies series is one of the best-selling franchises in mainstream publishing history. -- /Daniel

Re: Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Brown
Forwarded back to the list, Mario. Please hit Reply-All to keep it on the list. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:44, Kastner Mario off...@unite-it.at wrote: I also read the for dummies book when i started with php. It gives me a simple intro which power is behind php. My first application was a

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Richard Heyes
I learned from PHP For Dummies. The title of that book isn't doing itself any favours... :-) You'd be surprised. The For Dummies series is one of the best-selling franchises in mainstream publishing history. Still, calling your audience dumb is generally regarded as being a bad thing.

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Jay Moore
Richard Heyes wrote: I learned from PHP For Dummies. The title of that book isn't doing itself any favours... :-) You'd be surprised. The For Dummies series is one of the best-selling franchises in mainstream publishing history. Still, calling your audience dumb is generally regarded as

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 13:41 -0600, Jay Moore wrote: Richard Heyes wrote: I learned from PHP For Dummies. The title of that book isn't doing itself any favours... :-) You'd be surprised. The For Dummies series is one of the best-selling franchises in mainstream publishing history.

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Jay Moore
Ps. That was a lame attempt at humour... I extract and distill knowledge from the Internet and save myself from having to buy books. I hear they have that on computers now. I should check it out one of these days. Maybe I'll buy a book. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Brendon Van Heyzen
Web Database Applications with PHP MySQL, PHP in action, and php.net --Brendon On Dec 14, 2008, at 5:33 PM, jeffery harris wrote: Hi guys/gals. I'm a first time user. Does anyone know of a good php book? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 13:50 -0600, Jay Moore wrote: Ps. That was a lame attempt at humour... I extract and distill knowledge from the Internet and save myself from having to buy books. I hear they have that on computers now. I should check it out one of these days. Maybe I'll buy a

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Jay Moore
Robert Cummings wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 13:50 -0600, Jay Moore wrote: Ps. That was a lame attempt at humour... I extract and distill knowledge from the Internet and save myself from having to buy books. I hear they have that on computers now. I should check it out one of these days.

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:04, Jay Moore jaymo...@accu-com.com wrote: Floppies hold 1.4 megs now? Mine don't and they're even dual-sided. :( Jay, Throw out your 62K and 5.25 floppies and get with the 1980's, brother. It's all about the 3.5 hard disks now. They're radical! --

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Jay Moore
Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:04, Jay Moore jaymo...@accu-com.com wrote: Floppies hold 1.4 megs now? Mine don't and they're even dual-sided. :( Jay, Throw out your 62K and 5.25 floppies and get with the 1980's, brother. It's all about the 3.5 hard disks now.

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:11, Jay Moore jaymo...@accu-com.com wrote: Ok. Let me back them up to these reel-to-reel tapes quick, just in case. Just be careful that you don't get the Michaelangelo or Friday The 13th viruses especially if you're converting over on a C-64 1541 drive. --

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:11 -0600, Jay Moore wrote: Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:04, Jay Moore jaymo...@accu-com.com wrote: Floppies hold 1.4 megs now? Mine don't and they're even dual-sided. :( Jay, Throw out your 62K and 5.25 floppies and get with the

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:07 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:04, Jay Moore jaymo...@accu-com.com wrote: Floppies hold 1.4 megs now? Mine don't and they're even dual-sided. :( Jay, Throw out your 62K and 5.25 floppies and get with the 1980's, brother. It's

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 22:21 +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:11 -0600, Jay Moore wrote: Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:04, Jay Moore jaymo...@accu-com.com wrote: Floppies hold 1.4 megs now? Mine don't and they're even dual-sided. :( Jay,

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:22, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: Cue Tedd and his stones in 3... 2... 1... Rocks[TM]. -- /Daniel P. Brown http://www.parasane.net/ daniel.br...@parasane.net || danbr...@php.net 50% Off Hosting! http://www.pilotpig.net/specials.php -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:22 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 22:21 +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:11 -0600, Jay Moore wrote: Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:04, Jay Moore jaymo...@accu-com.com wrote: Floppies hold 1.4 megs

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 22:30 +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:22 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 22:21 +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:11 -0600, Jay Moore wrote: Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:04, Jay

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:30, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: These stones? http://xkcd.com/505/ That's fantastic, Ash. I haven't seen that one. I'm CC'ing Tedd directly on that. -- /Daniel P. Brown http://www.parasane.net/ daniel.br...@parasane.net ||

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-16 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:44 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:30, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: These stones? http://xkcd.com/505/ That's fantastic, Ash. I haven't seen that one. I'm CC'ing Tedd directly on that. -- /Daniel P. Brown

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-15 Thread Micah Gersten
O'reillys Learning PHP 5: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005603/index.html Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com jeffery harris wrote: Hi guys/gals. I'm a first time user. Does anyone know of a good php book? -- PHP General Mailing

RE: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-15 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Hi guys/gals. I'm a first time user. Does anyone know of a good php book? [/snip] http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Advanced-Visual-QuickPro-Guide/dp/0321376013 if you are already a programmer but want to get up to speed on PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe,

[PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-14 Thread jeffery harris
Hi guys/gals. I'm a first time user. Does anyone know of a good php book? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-14 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 16:33 -0600, jeffery harris wrote: Hi guys/gals. I'm a first time user. Does anyone know of a good php book? I tend to trust O'Reilly books a lot for all things programming, although I learnt largely with 'PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development' from WROX. Ash

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-14 Thread Tim | iHostNZ
The best book is php.net, if you already know a programming language ;-). Otherwise Ashley is probably right. I haven't read any books on php, got all the info off the web, but it's still my main language atm. Tim-Hinnerk Heuer http://www.ihostnz.com On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:33 AM, jeffery

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-14 Thread German Geek
The best book is php.net, if you already know a programming language ;-). Otherwise Ashley is probably right. I haven't read any books on php, got all the info off the web, but it's still my main language atm. Tim-Hinnerk Heuer http://www.ihostnz.com On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Ashley

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-14 Thread Ólafur Waage
Hey, php.net is the best book, but if you want a good book that goes over all the elements of php then pickup the Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide: http://www.amazon.com/architects-Zend-Certification-Study-Guide/dp/0973862149/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1229296547sr=8-1 Olafur Waage

Re: [PHP] Good PHP book?

2008-12-14 Thread franzemmanuel
Ashley Sheridan a écrit : On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 16:33 -0600, jeffery harris wrote: Hi guys/gals. I'm a first time user. Does anyone know of a good php book? I tend to trust O'Reilly books a lot for all things programming, although I learnt largely with 'PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development'