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Posted by Judson Vaughn on 02/21/05 17:27
I second O'Reilly's PHP Cookbook. Another recommendation is Larry
Ullman's books, especially HP Advanced for the World Wide Web. I try to
triangulate, using several books that come at the code differently.
Jud.
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
>* Daniel Purdy <daniel.purdy@niicommunications.com>:
>
>
>>[snip]
>>I'm looking for an easy to read PHP book that will help me learn a solid
>>foundation in PHP.
>>
>>I'm already familiar with the language but want to make sure I'm coding
>>in the most efficient manner.
>>
>>What's a few of the better books out there?
>>[/snip]
>>[snip jblanchard:]
>>I personally like the O'Reilly books on PHP, especially the PHP Cookbook
>>[/snip]
>>
>>
>>My personal favorites are the ones with the bright red covers published
>>by wrox (they are usually just titled the language, so in this case
>>PHP). I have found they provide excellent quick reference and also are
>>great for sitting down and reading through to get a better grasp of the
>>language. HTH!
>>
>>
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>I cannot disagree more. I have a copy of "Professional PHP Programming"
>from circa 2000. It has a ton of real-world examples... that are
>completely insecure and display really bad programming habits.
>Additionally, the function listings at the back are not indexed, so if
>you don't know, for instance, that the function 'split' is a regular
>expression function, you'll never find it. The HTML reference was
>complete fluff (shouldn't have even been in the book).
>
>I honestly haven't found an introductory PHP book I could recommend --
>I'd look for a good book on programming and/or programming practices for
>the web, and then figure out how to translate that into PHP (using
>php.net as a reference).
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