Posted by "Ben Litton" on 10/18/05 22:43

I liked Schlossnagle's 'Advanced PHP Programming'
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325616/qid=1129664190/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6178615-3953615?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

It has a little primer on a variety of things but is for the php5 user.
You might also want to read a book called Code Complete

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735619670/qid=1129664509/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6178615-3953615?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

It's probably written more for the C/C++/Java crowd, but is meant to
mostly be language neutral. It gives some great pointers on software
construction. Some seems fairly obvious, but if you're self-taught (like I
am) then you're sure to take a few things away from it.

Ben

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:43:36 -0400, "Alan Lord" <alan.lord@dsl.pipex.com>
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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