Re: Recommended Reading?

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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