Posted by K.J.Williams on 04/03/07 04:22

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

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