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Posted by The Eclectic Electric on 09/13/06 13:12
"kenoli" <kenoli@igc.org> wrote in message
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> The php books I have been able to track down at local book stores tend
> to go to contact and content management systems, shopping carts,
> enterprise system, mailing lists and RSS stuff, the kind of commercial
> and open source consumer programs that shows up on the web.
>
> As they get into more advanced topics, they tend to move to object
> oriented programming, patterns and the coordination of work teams.
>
> I work in the non-profit and community sectors and a lot of what I am
> programming for is managing resources, including people, articles,
> links, files, funders, photos and other things which involve a lot of
> related tables, complex searches, access management, and the ability
> for people to upload information without corrupting what is there.
>
> It also includes web page management like using php to do task specific
> CSS selction, page formats for printing and other kind of output.
>
> As I am doing most of this myself, I have found it easier to work with
> procedural code, switch operators and called functions and php
> procedural files rather than objects.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone knows a source for books or even links focusing
> more on advanced procedural coding in the areas I have mentioned.
>
> Safari, O'Reilly and Apress have some great books, but they tend to go
> in the enterprise/object direction when they get down to brass tacks.
>
I'd be interested in this as well. Just basically because procedural code
is what I'm used to and I'm not at all convinced an object oriented approach
would add anything to my project.
I've got an open question which I'm about to bump for a second time (ahem!)
about using a procedural approach for prepared statements.
+e
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