I have the first of the two books you listed (Professional PHP4 XML). It's the best reference I've seen on the details of using XML in PHP, thus it fits your requirement #5 very well. It only spends one chapter reviewing general PHP programming, though, so it may not be a good fit for your requirements 1-4. (On the other hand, PHP isn't all that difficult to learn on its own, and the official manual at www.php.net may be sufficient reference material for that purpose.)
- Gary --- Wade Preston Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > these are two that i'm looking at... > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861007213/ > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861006918/ > > > From: Wade Preston Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: recommendations on book to buy, please > > > > group: > > > > i am about to purchase a book on PHP and XML. specifically, i am > > > > looking for help on using PHP and XML to write powerful, > > efficient, easy to update and maintain websites. basically i > > want to use XML as my database and PHP to read/display it in > > the web pages. > > > > i'm also interested, after getting better at the above, at > > dynamic flash websites. > > > > can anyone recommend a good book (can only buy one right now) > > that will cover... > > > > 1. programming in PHP4 > > 2. designing web-pages in PHP4 > > 3. reading from and writing to flat-file databases using PHP4 > > 4. learning XML > > 5. using XML in flat-file databases to be read by PHP4 > > > > ...and possibly... > > > > 6. using PHP/XML to provide dynamic content to flash work __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
