Re: Book Required

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 02:59:56AM -0500 or thereabouts, linux@e75.com wrote: > I agree that PHP & MySQL Web Development (By Luke Welling and Laura > Thompson) is a great resource for learning PHP. Armed with that book > and the online PHP manual (with user comments), and you're on your way > to being a well-informed developer. > > The second edition (2003) covers PHP 4.3, so it's still quite useful... > I'm pretty sure the third edition will be written to cover 5.0. I agree the foregoing is an excellent book -- BUT, not for beginners. When beginners are asking for a good book, that assumes they know nothing, and has a very good teaching manner, I always recommend a Visual Quick Start book. One such book is "Larry Ullman's PHP for the World Wide Web" second editon. It's published by Peachpit Press, so the proofreading is of an excellent calibre. I'm not in any way affliated with Larry Ullman, just a satisfied purchaser. PHP & MySQL Web Developement is a good reference book, but not a beginners book, unless one has prior experience in programming. I would add this book to my libray after reading and completing a beginner's book. I think many of you gurus, have been too far removed from the beginners learning thought process, which is a natural thing. No offense intended. -- S.Allen ----------------------------------------------- barnyard Monday Jul 19 2004 08:30:02 PM EDT ----------------------------------------------- I'm wearing PAMPERS!!