Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-17 Thread John Nichel
Jaap van Ganswijk wrote: snip 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? snip The O'Reilly Perl books are considered to be

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: snip 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? snip

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 (topic wandering)

2003-06-17 Thread Wim Paulussen
:[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 script languages like PHP, Python

RE: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread Dan Joseph
Hi Mark, I can't really recommend one, but I can recommend going to www.journeyed.com and checking out what books they have there. They are a retailer to students, and their books are mostly designed for classroom teaching. I'm sure you could find something there that would fit your

RE: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread Mike Brum
Mark, One thing that you might want to consider is to just get the book you think is best and has the most solid content and then build your ciriculum around certain chapters. It shouldn't be hard to have a student read a chapter a night or even two chapters over the course of a week. Most of the

Re: [PHP] Good PHP Books

2003-06-16 Thread Mark McCulligh
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 future create

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

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). It's

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

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 future

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 am