RE: [PHP] PHP Book?

"PHP Developers Cookbook", by Sterling Hughes I like it: as the name might suggest, it is packed with real-World examples. I also bought "Beginning PHP Programming" (Wrox press). Mistake. Big mistake. It is aimed at people who are *completely* new to programming. The review that I read of it didn't convey this aspect :( For example, in chapter 5 or 6 there is a paragraph along the lines of: "You know that we told you to make your code reusable? Here's why: you can use something called a function......." I actually found it vaguely funny, whilst I was banging my head against the wall. > -----Original Message----- > From: Hamed Nik [mailto:Hamed53@btinternet.com] > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 14:10 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] PHP Book? > > > Hey everyone... > > I've been programming in perl for about 3 years now, i have > installed php > and have been working on it for about three weeks. I started > by converting > some of the programs I've written in Perl to PHP.... it seems > its pretty > similar to Perl and not very hard to learn for a perl > programmer... but i > need some reference book with some practical examples so i could work > with... and probably something that gives me ideas on > different types of > programs and things that i could do in PHP... something that covers > everything in PHP... and is NOT copied from the manual! :)) > > I am sure most of you in this group have got some sort of a > PHP book... can > you please tell me out of your experience which ones are good > for me to buy? > > Regards > Hamed Nik > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net >