Posted by Jordan Miller on 10/18/05 22:11

Zandstra's "PHP 5 objects patterns practice" has been getting
excellent reviews. i also recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590593804/




On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:43 PM, Alan Lord wrote:


> Hi all,
>
> Forgive this long diatribe, a bit off-topic I know, but it might
> stimulate a good discussion...
>
> I have built a few small apps in PHP before and, whilst they work, I
> can't but help feeling that I go about the whole thing the WRONG
> way...
>
> I am not a professional software person (far from it) but I am
> reasonably competent in most things "technical". I trained in
> Electronics, build my own PCs and Linux systems from scratch, have
> used
> - just for fun - Java, Delphi, Visual Basic, PHP and a little C/C++.
>
> I am now wanting to write my own application (using PHP of course)
> to do
> something "really useful". And I am looking for some
> recommendations on
> reading [books or links] about "how to design" my application and
> how to
> think about the design in it's abstract form before I start writing
> code.
>
> Normally I end up writing little bits of code to solve small problems
> and then sort of kludging them together to do something useful.
>
> I would really like to try and go about this one the RIGHT way.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Al
>
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