RE: [PHP] recommend any good learning books

Hi. I started with PHP and MySQL from scratch (not knowing serious programming before) a couple of months ago with the books "PHP4 A beginner's Guide" written by Bill McCarty (Osborne) and "PHP and MySQL Web Development" written by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson (SAMS). The first one, covers I think all there is to get you started with PHP from zip (like me), but since you've been programming before, I would suggest you to jump right into the second one, which contains a very2 well step-by-step guidance trough PHP (once again, specially if you are a programmer), a well done explanation on RDBMs, making emphasis in MySQL but what's great about this book, is that it makes explanations of everything from easy to complex coding by using real life examples like shopping carts, user authentication systems and a web-based e-mail service among others. One more thing... the second book comes with a CD containing all the coding included in the book, but also a "soft" copy of the entire book made in PDF, so you can fast search for any quick need. Hope this helps you. I found them in www.amazon.com and got them in Argentina in no time at all. Go there to see other books and choices people have taken. C. > -----Original Message----- > From: paulson@coastnet.com [mailto:paulson@coastnet.com] > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 6:00 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] recommend any good learning books > > I am coming over from Perl life. Does anyone recommend any good beginners > books on learning PHP? I am looking for something similar too learning > perl from Oreily. > Thanks > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php