Re: PHP Books - A poll of sorts
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:59:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP Books - A poll of sorts | ||
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On Sun, August 12, 2007 8:52 pm, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas)
>
> We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome
> that seems to be missing from the group...a "best practices" book. We
> all have our preferences for what we call best practices and it seems
> at
> this stage in the life of PHP that there would be a guide to the best
> of
> the best.
>
> I am not talking about the holy wars here (like bracket placement) I
> am
> talking about things like testing variable in conditional situations
> or
> the proper use of constructors or ways to leverage the power of PHP
> with
> databases.
>
> If there was a best practices book would you buy it? (I am showing
> complete disregard for the thread on copyright infringement v. theft.)
> Or do you rely on other sources like this list, articles, etc to
> derive
> your own set of practices? Thanks for indulging me.
I personally would not buy it.
But I suppose it might sell as well as any of the other zillion PHP
books.
But you'd have a heck of a time getting even a large minority of PHP
developers to agree on "best practices" for an lot of stuff...
--
Some people have a "gift" link here.
Know what I want?
I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist.
http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch
Yeah, I get a buck. So?