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Posted by eholz1 on 04/03/07 20:49
On Apr 2, 8:22 pm, "K.J.Williams" <lordw...@quik.com> wrote:
> So today I went to my bookstore to pick up some stuff on
> improving my programming skills for PHP.
>
> 1. I know HTML but I dont practice CSS in my own code
> so I bought Cascading Style Sheets - The Definitive Guide
> 2nd Ed by Eric A. Meyer, published by O'reilly, to refresh my
> memory on this (this book covers CSS2 & CSS2.1). I have tried CSS
> on myspace.com and their server was terrible when I was trying
> to customize my page layout. I have no idea what their using
> but its terrible. The font colors wouldnt not work right.
>
> Aside from that I think CSS is great but I need to practice it
> more
> so that it is useful with PHP web page generation.
>
> 2. I have JavaScript - The Definitive Guide 3rd Ed. by David Flanagan
> published by O'reilly. I have had this book for a while so I am
> taking the advice of learning to use HTML wtih Javascripting.
> There is one problem with Javascripting ( and HTML ) the features
> of
> of the langauge is not totally universal with IE or Mozilla/Firefox/
> Netscape
> so in every Java Script, there has to be a conditional statement
> which
> catches the web browsers type and use the best most procedures -
> this might
> make my work with PHP not very easy for web page generation.
>
> 3. I bought PHP in a nutshell - A destop quick reference by Orielly -
> this is
> just another book that I got becuase I also have Perl in a
> nutshell.
>
> One crazy question is PHP derived from Perl , like C++ is derived
> from C?
>
> 4. I got another book PHP - to actually learn it... its called :
> Beginning PHP5 published by Dave W. Mercer ( and five other people
> listed ) published by Wrox in 2004 - this is the latest newest book
> that I saw.
> I know that PHP6 is about, but this is as close as I could get for
> a book
> on the matter
>
> I hope I made good choices since I was completely lost by the number
> of books
> on PHP that I could buy so I went with my best thoughts as I reviewed
> them and
> thats what I choose.
>
> I read one book on PHP book where the author in the introduction
> mentions on
> one line :
>
> Did I mention that PHP is open source ?
>
> .. twice through the intro.
>
> Well any thoughts?
>
> Thanks again
Oreilly's books on PHP are good, also too is Sitepoint's Kevin Yank
PHP and Mysql
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