Re: PHp Books

Hello Rajani, On 10 Feb 2004 at 12:36, Rajani Anand Iyer wrote: > Can someone recommend some good books on PHP Advanced topics. Well, I can advise you on what not to buy, which should help, too. Don't spend your money on Professional PHP4 (Argerich, Choi, Coggeshall, Egervari, Geisler, Greant, Hill, Hubbard, Moore, O'Dell, Parise, Rawat, Sani, Scollo, Thomas & Ullman): it's mostly badly written and the really relevant stuff is not clearly explained; you get the feeling (probably pretty accurate) that the book was banged out by a bunch of programmers who cannot write good English and have no experience teaching or explaining things to others — or even building a logical argument, for that matter. Don't go near XML and PHP (Vaswani), either. Also badly written and already outdated. In addition, the book doesn't give you any information that you could not easily find on the web. If you already know the basics about manipulating XML with PHP, you won't learn anything new from this book, either. I recently bought Secure PHP Development (Kabir) and it seems to be interesting, but I haven't yet found the time to get past the introduction and a first browse, so I can't really recommend it. But you might want to have a look at its table of contents and a few reviews. Cheers, Erik