Re: SV: [PHP] PHP Book?

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:06:54PM +0200, Christian Reiniger wrote: > On Friday 27 April 2001 15:15, Johan Holst Nielsen wrote: > > > 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 > > > Try "Core PHP Programmning", it's have a lot of good stuff! > > That book is definitely the wrong choice for someone with 3 years perl > experience (perhaps unless there's a second edition). The copy I > unfortunately bought is built somehow like that: What books are you reading? > 5 pages useful intro > 45 pages explaining basic language contructs [1] > 4 pages explaining classes > 11 pages giving a (small) overview of using print(), getting data from > forms, file upoads, env-vars, cookies, include/require and file IO > 340 pages function references (copied from the manual) [2] That is wrong. Leon havent copied 340 pages from the manual. I should know this myself because I have finished the translation into German. > After that comes the somehow useful part - overviews of common task areas > - using databases, string munging, ... > But that's only quick overviews, and some of the topics are just about > generic (language independent) stuff, e.g. the description of basic > sorting algorithms (the stuff you do *not* want to use in PHP :) > > Well, it gets one plus point because it includes an ASCII chart :) > > So: forget about that book. If at all, you'll quickly glance over it and > then let it collect dust forever. > > > [1]: Perl is very similar in this area. Just looking through the manual > will be better (and quicker) than reading that book section > > [2]: completely uses - the online manual is much quicker to search and > much more up to date (the book only covers PHP3) This is not true. Leon has written his second edition. This edition contains PHP 4 also. Please read books more carefully and don't pester this mailing list with your nonsense comments. I mean that book with a foreword by Andi Gutmans. -Egon -- LinuxTag, Stuttgart, Germany: July 5-8 2001: http://www.linuxtag.de/ All known books about PHP and related books: http://php.net/books.php Concert Band of the University of Hohenheim: http://www.concert-band.de/ First and second bestselling book in German: http://www.php-buch.de/